George Benson Quotes

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

I have always tried to perform the music I love, and I think I am lucky because my preferences are often the ones of the public.

The first record I made, when I listen to it, I understand. I understand perfectly well why certain musicians were unhappy with me. I had to decide: was I unhappy with me? I liked it. If they didn't like it, it was on them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

We all have different musical instincts, and I think they're precious and should be respected.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give me some Tabasco sauce, some ketchup, some mayonnaise. I love all of that. Put it on a trumpet. I've just got to have the ketchup and Tabasco sauce. That's my attitude about musical philosophy.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

I don't want to spend a month and a half in a studio with music I don't like, and fortunately I don't have to.

I equally love both, classic rock and hip-hop. I love all music, really, and I really use classic rock a lot. I'm heavily influenced by that melodically in my music. I can't really separate the two.

I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

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.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

But I love how people who are musical, they know how to dress.

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.

I never watch my own films.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I know music is subjective.