The record is not simply a storage device. Its value resides in the particular set of memories and emotional associations held by its owner. These are inseparable from the physical object, which is no longer a physical object but an article of faith.

— Steve Almond

Steve Almond Quotes

At what point do we admit that the NFL’s true economic function is to channel our desire for athletic heroism into an engine of nihilistic greed?

— Steve Almond

The reason Americans favor milk chocolate over dark is because Milton Hershey got his bars into enough American mouths to establish our collective taste.

— Steve Almond

This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

— Steve Almond

The body releases its electricity, merges with another, and together there is something like God in this pleasure. But afterward, in the quiet redolent air, there must also be offerings of truth. And so the mystery of love deepens.

— Steve Almond

Romance

What would happen if some invisible gas leak in the school cafeteria caused diminished brain activity in students? Can we safely assume district officials would evacuate the school until further notice? That parents would be up in arms? That media and lawyers would descend in droves to collect statements from the innocent victims? Can we assume that the community would not gather together en masse on Friday nights to eat hot dogs and watch the gas leak?

— Steve Almond

We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it’s a total lie.

— Steve Almond

Isn’t there something you want to tell me, something filthy and lovely and true.

— Steve Almond

I myself despise “Macarena,” and yet I have been humming it for the past three days and my two-year-old daughter is now humming it and I’m pretty sure she will never stop.

— Steve Almond

If you’re wondering if you’re a collector, ask yourself two questions. Do I own too many records? Do my friends and family feel I own too many records? If your respective answers are No and Yes, you’re a Collector.

— Steve Almond

The record is not simply a storage device. Its value resides in the particular set of memories and emotional associations held by its owner. These are inseparable from the physical object, which is no longer a physical object but an article of faith.

— Steve Almond

Boyle looked like a Monty Python in drag. Then she opened her mouth and this epic noise came ripping out of her. Within a week, she was the most celebrated person on earth, an.

— Steve Almond

Styx has become the mullet of bands.

— Steve Almond

Hey, Dad, check this out!” Ike stared at the boy. He clearly wanted to be down there watching his kid possibly crack his skull open, rather than recording a song about how frightened he was that his kids might crack their skulls open.

— Steve Almond

Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less precious in the bargain. I.

— Steve Almond

Rock and roll allowed people to lie about themselves, and to be sanctified for the extravagance of their fictions. This.

— Steve Almond

It’s the reason we become enamored of certain singers, I think, because they project the voice we wish to summon within ourselves. His.

— Steve Almond

More than any single issue, Gil’s essential topic was America, how the nation had fallen away from its moral precepts and into ruin, a condition of spiritual malaise that would eventually deliver us the bigotry and psychotic greed of the Bush Era.

— Steve Almond

The true work of love resides in sticking with the process, especially in those moments, and eras, when desire is forced to coexist with doubt.

— Steve Almond

First, that troubled people tend to be the most powerful figures in a family, the most effective at exporting their internal discord into the world around them.

— Steve Almond

Convenience is the gateway drug to entitlement. It drains people of their empathy, because it fosters the illusion that they can proceed through life without hardship. This makes it harder for them to imagine others who are facing hardship.

— Steve Almond

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