Musical Judgment Quotes

Personally, I think Jesus would like better bands.

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.

People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

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

I think you'll always be able to do what your ear tells you.

I do know a good singer when I hear one.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

I grew up having an ear for what was hot and was not - what sounds good in music and what doesn't.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

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.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

My actual taste in music is pretty bad, I think.

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

We like to categorize things into showy things and deep things, you know, and things that are high music - important music - and shallow music. And I think that's dangerous, because there's often a mix of both.

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.

I have a lot of friends with bad taste in music - some might say that I have bad taste in music.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

You can hate my band, I really don't care what your opinion is.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.