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Chuck Eddy Quotes

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

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 Eddy
Growing Up, Divorce, White
Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.205, Duke University Press

Few bands in hard rock history have been so adept at balancing the awesome and trivial as Van Halen in their prime.

Chuck Eddy
Rocks, Band, Prime

AC/DC has lived the dumbness that the Ramones have only faked all these years.

Chuck Eddy
Years, Ramones, Dumbness

Mayer Hawthorne's old school pop-R&B homages are so meticulous that it's tempting to overrate his pipes.

Chuck Eddy
School, Hawthorne, Meticulous

If I am thinking the same as everyone why bother pushing to get it published?

Chuck Eddy
Thinking, Pushing, Bother

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

Chuck Eddy
Yelling, Guy, Fans
Chuck Eddy (2011). “Rock and Roll Always Forgets: A Quarter Century of Music Criticism”, p.325, Duke University Press

Gary Allan has long been one of country's most reliably velvet-voiced beautiful losers.

Chuck Eddy
Beautiful, Country, Long

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Chuck Eddy
Sticks, Conviction, Should

By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.

Chuck Eddy
Giving Up, Rap, Late

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.

Chuck Eddy
Hair Metal, Radio, Albums

I like critics with strong opinions.

Chuck Eddy
Strong, Strong Opinions, Opinion

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

Chuck Eddy
World, Critics

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