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Quotes About Taste

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.
~ Peter Steele
The function of pop music is to be consumed.
~ Pierre Boulez
Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.
~ Irving Berlin
I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.
~ Kristin Hersh
I tend to gravitate away from the more trendy Ibiza style of dance music. It's not me.
~ DJ Shadow
To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.
~ Jan Morris
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 think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.
~ Robert Glasper
Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
~ Fetty Wap
I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.
~ David Bowie
A lot of people don't know about music, but buy records. A lot of people that know about music can't afford to buy records.
~ Marc Bolan
I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
~ Roger Waters
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 write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.
~ Frank Zappa
I'm sorry, I don't listen to country music.
~ Joey DeMaio
I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.
~ Mike Trout
There are only two types of music.good and bad.
~ Buddy Rich
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.
~ John Armstrong
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
~ Erykah Badu
It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
~ Ray Charles
Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
~ Joan Jett
I really like all music, but mostly Country, older R&B, and the good classic rock.
~ Brett Favre