John Entwistle Quotes

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

I love all kinds of music.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

I kinda always wanted to be a tenor player, but I'm a small guy, and tenor was just too big.

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

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

I feel like, at the end of the day, I always would try to make music that I wanted to listen to: stuff that I liked and wanted to hear.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.

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.

My mum wasn't the sort of person who would ordinarily listen to heavy metal. But she thinks Babymetal's songs are cool. She's a big fan.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

No... I don't like Slayer.

I enjoy the songs that I write, but I can never enjoy them the same way as other peoples' songs.

I have my own favorites; right now it's 'Simple Man,' but that changes from time to time.

I like talking about my music.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

If I like the music then at least some others will too, and that is all that matters in this context.

Music, to me, if it's good, it's good. That's all that matters.

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.

Maybe you just get so attached to the music of your youth that you think it's better than what's coming out now.