Chuck Eddy quotes
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“Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.”
-- Chuck EddySource : Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press
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“Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.”
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“If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?”
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“I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.”
-- Chuck EddySource : Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.325, Duke University Press
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“Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.”
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“Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.”
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“By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.”
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“No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.”
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“AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.”
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“Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.”
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