Quotes About Music

Dot Hacker, to me, sounds like a collection of all my tastes. I hear four people trying to fill up as much space as they can.

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

You know, I am a mainstream person with mainstream tastes, and I want to hear the hits.

I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

I know what that tastes like, to be a rock-and-roll star - to have a limousine, to have girls screaming when they see you, girls trying to cut my hair, get a piece of me. But I don't walk around with a concept of myself as a rock-and-roll star, and certainly not as a musician, because I really can't play anything, except primitively.

The people at MTV are encouraged to be very confrontational and declarative about their tastes.

I was drawn to it much to my father's dismay. He wanted me to be a pianist like he was, but I had coarser tastes - like that old joke: What do you call a guy who hangs around with musicians? A drummer.

When you make a record, I always imagine people dancing to it. If the chef thinks it tastes good, then there will be someone who ultimately believes the same thing.

By the time Sonic Youth formed in 1981, my musical tastes had left the Dead behind, but I was always very proud of the fact that we had three different singers singing individually from different points of view, like the Dead.

My musical tastes are very diverse. I just never felt like listening to certain kinds of bands. There's too much great stuff out there.

I fulfill a part of myself in Pentatonix. And then, we can all step away individually and do the specific things we like because we're all so different in musical tastes.

Ironically, my tastes aren't that experimental, and I wouldn't describe my music on the surface as being overtly experimental, either.

My musical tastes were horrendous. I was just listening to whatever was on the radio. I wasn't being nourished musically at all.

In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.

I buy some black metal records kind of blindly, and I end up really liking maybe 30% of them. There's a lot of duds, for me at least, in black metal. I have kind of picky tastes about it.

My mom and dad have two very different tastes in music, so they were playing everything from Prince to the Beatles to Aaliyah.

My father would make music keeping public tastes in mind. I have inherited this from him.

Albums are just a punctuation of music. I don't usually start out with a manifesto. Your tastes change with the process of the album. I just make music and put it out when there's enough to call it an album.

All of us in the band are huge Queensryche fans, and Geoff Tate is one of the best lead singers in the business.

I actually have an Avenged Sevenfold tattoo on my body.

I have a tattoo of Joy Division on my chest, and I like One Direction.

The Soulfly logo was invented by a tattoo artist, Leo Zuleta; a lot of people don't know that.