73 Quotes by Robert Christgau

I'm not happy that death is approaching because I like being alive but I'm glad I've escaped the two-post-a-day economy of contemporary journalism. Good writing takes time.

Even when I was working at The Village Voice, I only put in about 20 hours at the office.

I don't think that most of my peers in rock criticism are from the West Coast. I think most of them are from the East Coast.

If you're intimate with a mind as powerful as that of Ellen Willis, it takes you a long time to separate yourself from her ideas. She had an extremely powerful mind.

My personal experience has been that in my free bohemian subculture, I'm not unique.

Bonnie Raitt and Lynyrd Skynyrd were two people I went on the road with.

One of the things that's happened in the music I love over the past five, 10 years is that some people have gotten very old and continued to make music.

As a power listener who listens to music between 10 and 14 hours a day and who always has his earphones and MP3 player with him, convenience really means a lot to me.

If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.