Quotes About Taste

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

My learning from my travels is that taste is objective. If a thing is tasty, it's universally tasty. Or, just not.

You never want to sound bitter about critics, because they're entitled to do their job, too, but I place much more trust in a person who I can look in the eye and someone who I know I share some kind of taste with - so my friends, for instance. For me, a critic is unknown and therefore irrelevant.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

Women are the best judges of anything we turn out. Their taste is very important. They are the theatergoers; they are the ones who drag the men in. If the women like it, to heck with the men.

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval.

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion.

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

Women's style is so hard for me. I just know what I think looks good.

Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.

Fashion is for women without style.

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

What else don't women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.

I don't like very young women very much. Never did.

I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do.

What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance.

I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!

I don't actually like coffee. But I'm addicted to Starbucks.

I would never do 'Stardust Memories' because I don't particularly like that kind of movie - that would be why I wouldn't do that.