Regina Spektor Quotes

It's all about people. It's all about the subjectivity of what people love.

Let's put it this way, I like number seven.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.

With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

In comedy, it's so subjective; there is no right or wrong.

Reviews are extremely subjective, but I have respect for them.

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

I don't like comparing people or teams.

If you make something interesting, inevitably not everybody is going to like it.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

Taste has nothing to do with style.

I don't think there's such a thing as the greatest of all time or the greatest in the world.

I think the human spirit is a real powerful spirit. It has no limits and it has no ends. And I hate to see it put in any kind of box - pink or green.

Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.

Human beings are not comparable. You can't compare us any more than you can compare roses and oranges, or mountains and the sea. You might prefer living by the sea to living in the mountains. You certainly like some people better than you like others. Preferences are perfectly valid...they're just your style asserting itself again. But you'd feel pretty silly saying 'The sea is better than the mountains.' It's every bit as silly to go around saying 'I'm better than Mary, but Joe is better than me.'

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.