Bob Mould Quotes & Sayings

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form. — Bob Mould

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like ... — Bob Mould

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves
I'm thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing. — Bob Mould

There's so many companies that are spending so much money on 17-year-olds ... I can't compete with that. I'm not that guy anymore, they can't dress me up and roll me out there and make me look good. I am what I am! — Bob Mould

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie. — Bob Mould

A song that straight people related to, now they find out it's about two guys? The flip side, or what I now know to be the upside, was that I had a large audience who might not have known about my homosexuality, were very attached to the work, and could now see that love and loss and hope are universal emotions that can't be owned, controlled, or denied by law or religion. — Bob Mould

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life. — Bob Mould

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound. — Bob Mould

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head. — Bob Mould

Jeff Hudson started me on a path that was key, and as life goes on it's become a mantra to me. It's that you're born into a family, your family of origin, and you're stuck with it. Once I recognized that, it freed me up to have a different kind of family: a family of choice. The people I surround myself with, spend holidays with, look to for support and comfort and validation -- that's my family of choice. — Bob Mould

Growing up in a violent house makes you hypervigilant -- you do everything in your life to make sure the egg doesn't break. The vigilance, along with the depression and the demons I battle, it all mixes together and shows up in my work. I beat myself up when things get out of control. I was supposed to be watching over it. Even more disturbing is the realization that I alone can create an utterly hopeless catastrophe. The only way to control it is to create it. Write it and it shall be so -- the prescient thought. — Bob Mould

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing. — Bob Mould

We all live and die for the stories and the sounds. Sometimes we find them, other times they just happen upon us. We don't always get a choice. — Bob Mould

Everything you hate is everything that you created. — Bob Mould

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am. — Bob Mould

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows. — Bob Mould

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil. — Bob Mould

When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting! — Bob Mould

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right. — Bob Mould