Chuck Klosterman Quotes

I don't really think reviewing music is something you're going to get famous doing overnight.

I feel like 'Pitchfork' has a style, and you always know what they're gonna say and what they're gonna pick apart.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read.

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.

But I feel like I developed my own love for hip-hop and rap music by myself. Just growing up and hearing new things. As you grow up, you begin to listen to new music that this kid is listening to, then you begin to like your own music, and start discovering it yourself.

Big ups to him, big ups to Future. I actually like Future's music. I like his music, you feel me. I'm not a hater or a critic on him, you know, I do me. God bless him, God bless me.

Occasionally, I'll want to cover something that's outside of my audiences' tastes or interests. Every week or so I have to try and cover at least one or two of those things to keep my sanity. If you're only reviewing what is in the top album spots on Apple Music every week, you can get kind of jaded.

I like most bands.

NME is normally associated with indie rock. It ain't something I read as a kid.

People say I'm destroying hip-hop, and I'm like, there's so much hip-hop, and it's so popular, so I don't know why I have the power to destroy it.

I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!

I was the first records editor at Rolling Stone, and there were no rules. There was nothing to fall back on as to how do you write about this kind of music, so people were trying absolutely everything with a great sense of freedom and experimentation and success and failure, and a feeling of, “My God, people are actually paying attention to this. Let’s pretend they aren’t because we don’t want to be intimidated by what somebody might think of what we’re saying.

For anyone approaching any one of the cast albums, if they don't like what they hear, it's not the performer's fault.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up.

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.