Sonny Rollins Quotes

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I've been listening to a lot of Hollies stuff lately, and it's beginning to sound pretty good to me.

I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.

A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie.

The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.

At least the rap metal stuff is good, but it's not really my bag. I've been listening to the radio since we've been touring the past month, because we don't get it most of the time.

It don't matter if you put 'The Dance' out, or any old George Strait song. Someone is going to think that it's awful. You gotta be able to just sit back and kind of laugh it off and know you're doing exactly what you wanna do, and if people don't like it, then it's not really my place to tell them they have to like it.

I don't think anyone has the same music sound as me. I can't think of anyone else.

Michael Jackson's one of my favorite artists of my whole life. In fact, I think he is my favorite. It's one of the first things I fell in love with before I learned about genres and before I knew what was cool to like.

My scope on what's good is if I like it. The first person I have to please is myself.

I blame my parents for never introducing me to good music.

I like to try out different methods to get to good songs.

I buy some black metal records kind of blindly, and I end up really liking maybe 30% of them. There's a lot of duds, for me at least, in black metal. I have kind of picky tastes about it.

I don't understand anything technical about music at all. I don't understand any of it, why you can't put these sounds together with those sounds. I only know what sounds good.

Aqualung is one that my brother turned me onto. It wasn't that hard-rocking, but Martin Barre had a really good sound. He knew what he was doing.

The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.