'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer … - Rob Sheffield

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Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.

Rob Sheffield

'The Sopranos' gets praised as novelistic, but it follows the most banal of life patterns, showing the sheer tedium of being a mobster. It has dead spots, boring plotlines, weak episodes. Characters develop slowly, or don't. Like viewers, a gangster might get bored, fade out of the action, then come back to find none of his debts forgotten.

Bored, Character, Debt, Episodes, Fade, Tedium

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When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Death, Die, Music, Remember, Song, Turn

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Jobs, Life, Lived, Memories, Music, Tissue

But bringing people together is what music has always done best.

Done, Music, People, Together

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Come, Heart, Let, Memories, Moment, Song

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Favorite, Moment, Moments, Right Now, Song, Unwritten