divendres, 9 de març del 2012

They've been listening to sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

Pàgina 19:

“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.


Nick Hornby,  
High Fidelity.
Penguin books,
London, 2000.