Bad Music Quotes

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

It's hard to describe how bloody awful music was, how desperately bad it was, how our 1960s heroes had become boring and useless. Not only were they bad - they were badly dressed.

I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.

The only music I don't like is bad music.

I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz" but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner" so far as music is concerned.

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful.

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

The Cure: A new dimension of the word 'crap'.

Music is music and there are only two types: good and bad.

Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.

Clarinet n. An instrument of torture operated by a person with cotton in his ears. There are two instruments worse than a clarinet – two clarinets.

If it's a band I like, I just hope they will survive it all. And I'll admit that if it's crap music, I hope they won't and it'll go away. Simply because there are too many great bands who should be heard in their place.

For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

I don't believe all music is good. I believe some music is bad for people to listen to. I think it makes their taste worse, I think it makes their lives worse, I think it makes them worse people.

Don Henley is real fallback for awfulness.

I saw the Sex Pistols, and they were terrible.

In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.

I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.