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Quotes About Judgment

You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.
~ Duke Ellington
It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.
~ Bradley Nowell
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
~ Joseph Haydn
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
~ Paul McCartney
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
~ Miles Davis
What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.
~ Peter Steele
When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
~ Loretta Lynn
I don't judge too much as long as it's good. As long as it's good music and good artistry, I'm with it.
~ Big Sean
It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.
~ Rapsody
He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)
~ Bing Crosby
I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.
~ Nina Simone
The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.
~ Ahmad Jamal
The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
~ Bob Marley
There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.
~ Louis Armstrong
An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
~ Van Cliburn
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
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
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
~ Perry Como
I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.
~ Mike Figgis
Rejection is one thing - but rejection from a fool is cruel.
~ Morrissey
What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?
~ John Lurie
music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.
~ Paulo Coelho
There's only two kinds of music I don't like....Country and Western.
~ Bobby Heenan