73 Quotes by Robert Christgau

I'm not that Internet-savvy. I get by. But that's all. I don't have serious skills or any other stuff.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a canonizing institution. Jann Wenner has worked to make Rolling Stone the keeper of the canon since 1970. I don't like that, because he uses institutional power and he uses economic power to enforce those standards.

Everything I know about Facebook makes me want to avoid it. Twitter has really improved my reading habits.

Every marriage is different, and it's impossible to understand your own marriage, really, much less anybody else's.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.

I don't believe in pulling punches or being judicious, as the standard in literary criticism or academic musicology.

One way I judge music is whether it compels me to listen to it.

Certainly it's much more important for me to go to a good movie and spend a nice night with my wife than it is to listen to a specific piece of music.

I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don't have a good knowledge of harmony and can't identify rhythm signatures very easily either.