The Name of This Band Is R.E.M. Quotes

“It was like a bat signal coming through the clouds. If you don’t belong, you belong here. Even as the band ascended, they knew where they could find their people.”
― Peter Ames Carlin, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

“They were all out of their bodies then, their shared momentum carrying them higher and farther than they'd ever dreamed.”
― Peter Ames Carlin, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

“Interviewed before the show that same day, Peter and Mike also talked about their connection with college students. Peter: “It’s one of three things: they have more leisure time, more money, or they take more drugs. I haven’t decided which one.” The host, sensing the sound bite forming in front of him, asked if they’d worked out the answer yet, leading Peter and Mike to shoot back, reflexively and in unison: “More leisure time!”[2]”
― Peter Ames Carlin, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.

“If you were poor or gay or even just different—arty, offbeat, angry, beset by visions of what should be, even given the allure of what was—you felt awfully alone. The music on the radio didn’t speak to you. You had to look for special outposts where people like you could speak freely in your native tongue. If you were lucky, you’d live somewhere close to a college or a community that supported a fringe radio station. Some cities had specialty record stores, or there might be bookstores, a coffeehouse, a bar with a cool jukebox and a clientele who didn’t want to watch sports or thump you for looking a particular way.”
― Peter Ames Carlin, The Name of This Band Is R.E.M.