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Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota QUOTES

Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota QUOTES

1 " It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

2 " What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

3 " Let's face it: Sadness and evil are always more believable than happiness and love. When a movie reviewer calls a film "realistic," everyone knows what that means--it means the movie has an unhappy ending. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

4 " Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

5 " I sometimes wonder how many hours of my life I have wasted bitching about keyboards. The use of keyboards and synthesizers is the Roe v. Wade of '80s metal. It was-without question-the lamest instrument a band could use. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

6 " What music "means" is almost completely dependent on the people who sell it and the people who buy it, not the people who make it. Our greatest artists are the ones who understand how they can be interesting and unique within those limitations. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

7 " I enjoy hating musicians far more than I enjoy appreciating them. As far as I'm concerned, when someone becomes a rock star, he quits being a person. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

8 " Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

9 " During the 1970s (and particularly because of Vietnam), it slowly became standard for absolutely everyone to go to college, particularly if they had no desire to get a real job. One of the results was a massive population of film school students, most of whom became waiters and valets in the 1980s. Since the vast majority of these Kubrick wannabes couldn't crack the motion picture industry, they saw opportunities to make minimovies in the world of rock 'n' roll. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

10 " They [dolphins] are my least favorite member of the animal kingdom. Everyone seems to think dolphins are cute and "intelligent," but they're best described as ugly and impractical. I don't want to come across as insensitive, but show me a person whose intelligence equates to that of a dolphin and I will show you a fucking retard. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

11 " Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota

12 " accelerated culture does not respond well to the nonobvious. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey in Rural North Dakota