Musical Discrimination Quotes

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from. For me, it just wasn't cool - orchestral music was cool.

I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

To me, being a classical snob in the highest possible way and being an indie snob is just as bad!

When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.

I think it's pretty stupid to write off an entire genre of anything. It's one thing to say 'I don't like country music.' But it's pretty narrow minded to say 'All country music sucks.' Of course, that being said, all short-form improv sucks.

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.