Songbook (2002) (edit title/settings)

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• Bob Dylan: Add a description of this character.
• Jackson Browne
• Bruce Sprinsteeen

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• “Me, I need no convincing that life is scary. I'm forty-four, and it has got quite scary enough already - I don't need anyone trying to jolt me out of my complacency.”

  Nick Hornby

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• It’s a process something like falling in love. You don’t necessarily choose the best person, or the wisest, or the most beautiful; there’s something else going on.

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• A couple of times a year I make myself a tape to play in the car, a tape full of all the new songs I’ve loved over the previous few months, and every time I finish one I can’t believe that there’ll be another. Yet there always is, and I can’t wait for the next one; you need only a few hundred more things like that, and you’ve got a life worth living.

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• Maybe it’s only songwriters who have ever had any inkling of what Jesus felt on a bad day.

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• sometimes it’s hard to remember that a lot of people liking what you do doesn’t necessarily mean that what you do is of no value whatsoever. Indeed, sometimes it might even suggest the opposite.

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• In fact, thinking about it now, it’s why I love the relationship that anyone has with music: because there’s something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. It’s the best part of us, probably, the richest and strangest part,

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• The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be. In learning to do that, however, things get lost, too, and one of the things that got lost – along with a taste for, I don’t know, hospital dramas involving sick children, and experimental films – was Jimmy Page. The noise he makes is not who I am any more, but it’s still a noise worth listening to; it’s also a reminder that the attempt to grow up smart comes at a cost.

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• And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do;

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• How is it possible to love or connect to music that is as omnipresent as carbon monoxide?

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• When it comes down to it, I suppose that I too believe that life is momentous and sad but not destructive of all hope, and maybe that makes me a self-dramatizing depressive, or maybe it makes me a happy idiot, but either way ‘Thunder Road’ knows how I feel and who I am, and that, in the end, is one of the consolations of art.

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• England
• Britain

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1. Nick Hornby (Author)

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Awards edit see section history

• National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 2003: Criticism)

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• Dewey: 782.42164

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• Books › Entertainment › Music › History & Criticism