What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.
Tag: love music depression
Read anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again.
Nick HornbyTag: reading
What good were real feelings anyway?
Nick HornbyTag: feelings about-a-boy nick-hornby
You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
Nick HornbyTag: change relationships about-a-boy nick-hornby
There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.
Nick HornbyTag: love people lucky about-a-boy nick-hornby
Kurkov loves his weltschmerz as much as the next guy--but he doesn't see why weltschmerz shouldn't come bundled up with a narrative that kicks a little bit of ass--the edge of the left cheek, say.
Nick HornbyI couldn't have written [What Good Are The Arts?] because I--and I'm not alone, by any means--do not have Carey's breadth of reading, nor his calm, wry logic, which enables him to demolish the arguments of just about everyone who has ever talked tosh about objective aesthetic principles. And this group, it turns out, includes anyone who has ever talked about objective aesthetic principles.
Nick HornbyI hate calling him T-Bone. It sets my teeth on edge, like when you have to ask for a Big Heap Buffalo Billburger, when all you want is a quarter-pounder, or a Just Like Mom Used to Make, when all you want is a piece of apple pie.
Nick HornbyIf he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..
Nick HornbyOne thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions.
Nick HornbyTag: duncan
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