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“I read Spin because I thought it had the best writers about music, but I wouldn’t need people to write about music if I could instantly hear the song itself.”
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“I read Spin because I thought it had the best writers about music, but I wouldn’t need people to write about music if I could instantly hear the song itself.”
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01 / belief
“My goal in this was to write a book that was not looking at the ’90s the way we think about the culture now, and jamming that retrospective view into a modern ideology, but to go back and try to capture what it actually felt like to experience that time.”
02 / belief
“I think the fact that, for a lot of people, their relationship to gaming starts so early that they perceive it as really no different than an athletic sport, except they were never comfortable playing athletic sports, and this is a way to do it.”
03 / belief
“I think if somebody wanted to do this, what they would do is, they would probably get involved with the mid-majors in very small college teams, where it wouldn’t be that difficult, not only to get to a player but to give him something that would be worth his time.”
04 / belief
“Charisma is a real thing, and in a way, I think sometimes we put charisma into a category like grit or like authenticity.”
05 / belief
“The ’90s — there was not the sense that culture was unraveling, which I think is a common feeling now.”
06 / belief
“Is he overrated or underrated? I would say he is probably somewhat overrated because he is often injured.”
07 / belief
“I think that, on average, of course, what you’re saying is true, but I wonder how much.”
08 / belief
“You find a few people who are philosophers who are famous. But in terms of his ideas themselves, they could be underrated because I think that his notoriety is very often used against him.”
09 / belief
“Although that is common, I think, to amplify fears in the moment, and then retroactively look at anything that didn’t happen and perceive it as, “Well, I guess maybe we were amplifying that too much at the time.”
10 / belief
“I think that somebody who was into rock in 1971, who was listening to Led Zeppelin and the early Beatles solo records and all that, and you played them this music, they would be like, “Well, it seems dissident.”