4 Quotes & Sayings By Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds is a journalist, critic, and musician who was born in 1964 in Britain. He's written about music (including the now defunct format called 'trip-hop'), drugs, pop culture, politics, globalisation and the media. He is the author of an influential book on the history of popular music (Music for Pleasure, 1992) and has written for The Guardian (UK), Spin (US), The Face (Australia) and others.

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The avant-garde is now an arrière-garde. Simon Reynolds
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The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. . Simon Reynolds
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Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. Simon Reynolds