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Quotes About Opinion

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.
~ Peter Steele
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.
~ Jerome Kern
He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)
~ Bing Crosby
The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.
~ Thomas Beecham
It [abstract art] should be enjoyed just as music is enjoyed after a while you may like it or you may not.
~ Jackson Pollock
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
~ Nina Simone
I mean, people listen to music, and they like that, but I think in England, a lot of people don't like contemporary art.
~ Damien Hirst
The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
~ M.I.A.
I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
~ David Bowie
Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids has grown up thinking trance is the shittiest music since country and western.
~ Paul van Dyk
I don't like listening to music. I'm not a music fan.
~ Celine Dion
I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.
~ Joey DeMaio
Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
~ Heinrich Heine
To a large degree I don't even like most metal music I hear.
~ Varg Vikernes
There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.
~ Bobby Heenan
I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.
~ Mac DeMarco
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
~ Robert Plant
I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.
~ Jack Johnson
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way
~ Dan Fogelberg
I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.
~ Davey Havok
The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
~ Win Butler