Quotes About Taste

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

I've always liked to dress up. I'd choose a halter top over a Led Zeppelin T-shirt when I was in high school.

I really don't listen to Led Zeppelin that much.

I hated Led Zeppelin at school.

I always hated the Grateful Dead. Never even bought a Led Zeppelin album.

My brother really shaped my musical taste when I was younger. He turned me on to classic rock like Led Zeppelin, and then he got me into R.E.M. and U2.

My dad turned me onto Led Zeppelin, the Stones, and the Who, but Madonna and pop music came from my mom.

The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

My house in my real life is a no-purple zone.

When two people compliment each other with the choice of anything, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

For him, any wine dated before four o'clock in the afternoon is vintage.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

All we want is food that tastes good, truthfully.

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

When I'm being funny, I try not to offend. I don't think much of what I've done has been in really ghastly taste. I don't think I have embarrassed many people or distressed them.

I'd love everyone to try authentic Italian food.

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

I love new restaurants; I love trying out new foods.