Big Sean Quotes

What I like about Americans is if it's good music, that's the only thing that matters.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

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

You've just got to believe that people will see and appreciate the value in the music and the artistry that we bring when they hear it.

My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in.

I like good music, whichever lane it comes out of. As long as it's dope, that is all that matters with me.

A lot of people, especially Christians, want to put you in this box of being a Christian actor, and I don't believe in it. You do yourself and everyone else a big disservice when you start thinking about it as 'Christian art.' That's why most Christian art is bad. They don't put a premium on the 'art.'

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

There's a certain type of indie fan who would balk at the prospect of there being value in pop music, but I think that's foolish. They're not really listening.

Just because people play songs with great technique doesn't mean the records are better.

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

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 an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.

I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the greatest works of art in the history of humankind, that's not to say the Beatles or Queen or Simon and Garfunkel aren't brilliant, beautiful, important works of art that should be sung without a sense of irony.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.

To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I've learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.