Rico Love Quotes

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.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

When I sample something, it's just me drawing from what I'm actually into. It's whatever sounds like a good track.

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

How it's been with me, it doesn't really matter what kind of music it is as long as it's good and catchy and I enjoy it. That's why I know all these different styles of music, just because it's fun. Whatever is good, I like it.

I'm definitely obsessed about artists and the type of music and the playing and the tone and all that kind of thing - I'm not obsessed about what the best Beatles album is. I just think if The Beatles are great, they're great.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

Country music is different because we [musicians] are all actually happy for each other. We're all friends. It's a little family. So if you don't win [an award], usually one of your friends does. So it's kind of a cool thing. I think it's the only genre of music to have that camaraderie.

There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind ... the only yardstick by which the result should be judged is simply that of how it sounds. If it sounds good it's successful; if it doesn't it has failed.

People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the public's taste" and I think that's very wrongheaded. I like to believe the audience is actually intelligent, because it's made up of other people like yourself.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

You're not really drinking coffee unless you drink it black, don't you think? Oh, no? You like to monkey with it?

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

I try and avoid thinking of strategy and I tend to stick to my gun of doing things that I like and try to avoid things that I "should" be doing, and stay true to that.

I regard myself as being the final filter so everything that ends up in the movie is there because it's something that I think was cool.

I picked songs that I've been singing my whole life that stuck with me. I tried to pick stuff that was a variety. And I think the same way I always imagine that people are going to play the record at their house and I imagine them doing stuff with music on, like the way I am.

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

I like the sound of my voice, doesn't mean it's any good but I like it. The joke is that "all good singers like the sound of their own voice" so we'll go with that.

I think my music is like anchovies - some people like it, some people get nauseous.

I don't really have guilty pleasures. Anything musically that I fully, fully believe, is good no matter who the artist is, no matter what the marketing is behind it, I stand pretty firm.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

There are so many songs that I hate.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

I like Iron Maiden and a few other bands, but by and large I don't like metal music. Most of it simply put reeks. This meant that it was no great loss for me to drop the metal music altogether.