Harry S. Truman Quotes

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

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.

I listen to some really bad country.

Tastes are varied, man, so much in this music world. Look, I adore the bands that I adore. On the flipside, as much as you love a 100 different genres of bands, there are another 100 I can easily say I dislike, too.

I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

I really didn't like 'Done With Mirrors.' I really didn't like 'Just Push Play.' Then there are other records I really think were good for their time, like 'Toys and Rocks.'

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

I don't like talking about music.

You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.

I loved that song ["Don't Tell Me"], but man, it was dark. That song did nothing for Van Halen.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

Last season when I was on set...for some reason I had The Battle Hymn of the Republic in my head but I didn't know all the words. It was one of those songs you had to learn when you were younger. It wasn't as important for people raised in the 80's and 90's as it was to people raised in the 50's, 60's and 70's so when I started singing "My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," Jane [Fonda] heard me singing it and started singing the rest of it. Suddenly everyone on set everyone was singing. That's just something I can keep in my heart forever.

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

Remind me again what's wrong with Dave Matthews?" "Basically everything, except technical proficiency," Walter said. "Right." "But maybe especially the banality of the lyrics. 'Gotta be free, so free, yeah, yeah, yeah. Can't live without my freedom, yeah yeah.' That's pretty much every song.

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite.

You should neither play bad compositions, nor, unless compelled, listen to them.