Quotes About Taste

I can taste and everything. I can taste every little ingredient in food.

My cooking style is really simple. Not a lot of ingredients, but all good quality, so you don't have to do that much to them.

Food is about the flavours that work well together, but when you've got great ingredients half the job is done for you.

The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

When it comes to fashion, follow your instinct.

I don't have a lot of instinctive fashion style myself.

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

There are times, like with Dire Straits, where you can get as close as you can be to being good at your instrument and not cross over to that tasteless place.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

A lot of movies aren't intended for everybody.

In Hollywood, people tend to have the same sensibilities, the same taste and values, and I didn't want to spend my life that way. I wanted to have a bigger, more interesting life.

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

I've always been very into interior design, and I can't stand to have anything in my apartment that I don't aesthetically love.

When I interview someone, I want to find out about their life, get a sense of their personality, their passion. Maybe I'm hiring for a certain job, but even if your job is marketing, I'm going to ask you for your opinion on other things - taste this, what do you think of this bottle?

I wonder if I'll ever be able to have what I like or if my tastes are too various to be sustained by one of anything.

How could they all just casually drink Coca-Cola when one sip, and it tasted like musty trunks? How on earth could anyone eat a hamburger unless they were starving?

So it turned out that power was the quality of knowing what you liked. An odd thing for power to be.

If you don't love it, don't eat it, and if you love it, savor it.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.

Art that sells on production is bad art, essentially. It is art that is made to demand. It suits the public. The taste of the public is bad. The taste of the public is always bad. It is bad because it is not an individual expression, but merely a mania for assent, a mania to be 'in on it'.

You are a fool to seek the kind of art you don't like. You are a fool to read classics because you are told to and not because you like them. You are a fool to aspire to good tastes if you haven't naturally got it.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

To be thought to be a moron to the eyes of an idiot is a gourmet's sensual delight!

food should be enjoyed when at its premium.