Initial Dislike Quotes

When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand the poetry. I just judged him on his singing and his guitar playing.

When I started playing basketball, I hated it because football had always been my sport.

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

I suppose you're right about some perspectives. Just a few weeks ago, I thought you were a dickhead.

In my teens, I saw a terrible production of 'Die Walkuere.' To a person of 15, it was just awful, and it put me off for many years. Eventually I became an opera-goer, if not an opera buff.

My songs grow on people - like warts.

The first time I saw Pearl Jam, I thought Eddie Vedder had seen too many Jim Morrison videos, and I didn't like the music very much. But by the third album, I really liked them after all.

He didn't like it all that much when he first came - all the rubbish and the rush - but it was growing on him, it wasn't half bad. Coming to the city was like entering a tunnel, he said, and finding to your surprise that the light at the end didn't matter; sometimes in fact the tunnel made the light tolerable.

Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.

When they first arrive, really, my eyes bleed! It's only when they're about to leave that they become people you might want to know.

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that.

At first I didn't dig country.

When I first saw Drake, I thought I was never going to like him based on the person that I saw on T.V. He's just so full on, and he's got the ladies' man thing, which isn't necessarily something that would resonate with me.

There's an artist that I listened to for the first time, and I really didn't like them. I had some kind of adverse reaction, and later, it became my favorite thing.

There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a huge fan and I get it. I wasn't initially a punk-rock fan. Now, I can appreciate what they stood for and who they were.

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

The album that really got me interested in how to create weird sounds, and pretty much changed my life, was 'OK Computer.' Funnily enough, my parents bought it for me because it was recommended to them, and the first 2 times I heard it, I absolutely hated it.

I am a horror to work with for any singer. At first, no one will like to work with me, but it changes once the song releases.

I read one Jane Austen in college and didn't like it at all and told everyone how much I disliked it. I read 'Northanger Abbey' sophomore year in college and hated it. I didn't read good Austen until after college, maybe a couple years out.

So most girls I date - actually, all of them - say this. Every girl I end up dating, there's like a couple things. One, they hate me at first.

I used to be so embarrassed by salsa; I wasn't into it.

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

No, I never thought I would like cats.