Ruadhán J. Mcelroy Quotes

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

Nothing is new anymore. We're living in a post-everything society and art itself has become satire.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

I’ve long believed that the gods give us the music we’re supposed to hear at the times we’re supposed to hear it, because all music, even lyrical and regardless of language performed in, is in and of itself an inherently magical language that can, at proper times, speak to the soul.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunderstood by 1963, and in a perpetual cycle of reinvention and rediscovery of itself by 1967 and 1975, respectively, but it was born in the 1920s, and I will maintain this. I don’t care who disagrees with me, and there are dozens of reasons that I do so —from the Art Deco aesthetic, to flapper fashions (complete with bobbed hair), to androgyny and subtle effeminacy, to jazz.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, police grammar on the Internet.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy