Matt Cameron Quotes

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

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

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

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

I always take care to have interesting chord progressions, because you can have the best sound design in the club, and you'll kill it in the club, but in five years, kids will have better sound design. But if your music is good, you'll always be able to listen to it, even in 20 or 50 years.

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

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

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

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Good music shouldn't have a shelf life.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

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.

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good.

You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

There's more good music being made now than ever before.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

I signed contracts I didn't think were a good idea but people around me said it was the way forward. It saddens me that I'll never own my first album ever, which sucks.

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it.