Paul Scofield Quotes

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

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

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.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

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

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

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

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I never could get into The Chambers Brothers. They make good records, but I never could get behind it.

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

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

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'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic.

My son always says I like very weird 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.

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

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

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

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.

Everyone's gonna have their opinion, everyone's gonna have their favorite bands. The best way I can describe it is music is like food, either you love it, hate it, or are indifferent about it. Or you grow up and acquire a taste for it.

I don't actually personally get off on guitar music.

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

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