"When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free."

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Source : Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.24, Crown Archetype

Rob Sheffield

#Music Quotes #Song Quotes #Sticks Quotes

“It is true that we can see the therapist as a technician only if we have first viewed the patient as some sort of machine.”
“I love a lot of reggae, but Ive never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.”
“Don't limit yourself because you are a woman because you can do exactly the same that a guy could do.”
“Oh sure, the songs have all totally evolved. I mean, when you're playing the same songs night in night out, they take on a life of their own. I can't even remember what I wrote some of them about now!”
“It is only through fiction and the dimension of the imaginary that we can learn something real about individual experience. Any other approach is bound to be general and abstract.”

Source : Nicola Chiaromonte (1985). “The paradox of history: Stendhal, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and others”, Univ of Pennsylvania Pr
“If the Pope were to deny that the death penalty could be an exercise of retributive justice, he would be overthrowing the tradition of two millenia of Catholic thought, denying the teaching of several previous popes, and contradicting the teaching of Scripture.”
“There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.”
“There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against - Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.”

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