Robert Christgau Quotes

I want people to know that I won't just assume that people will like my music.

It took me a while to like Wu-Tang's style.

I like a lot of the new artists, but there's only one I can name that stands out to me the most: Kendrick Lamar.

I remember buying The Fugees' 'The Score' my freshman year and feeling like this whole new world and this whole new conversation was opening up to me.

I am honored that 'Liquid Swords,' the song and album, have been so widely embraced for so long.

There's no reason anybody should be reading too much into 'Thrift Shop.' I just have because I have a 10-year-old and a 7-year-old who are really into going to lyric websites, hitting print, and printing lyrics for every song that's popular.

If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years.

For us to keep claiming this isn't Hip Hop and that isn't Hip Hop doesn't make sense to me.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.

I'm a big Rick Ross fan, and I think everybody knows I'm a big Kanye fan.

When I was sitting at home watching 'Yo! MTV Raps' as a kid, seeing the bright jackets excited me.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

I still have a lot to learn. I'm concentrating on learning a lot more about music.

I was raised on 'TRL' and listened to every genre that sounded good to me, from Sum 41 to Jay Z to Band of Horses to J. Dilla to Deathcab for Cutie to Pharrell.

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

I didn't think nobody knew I listened to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

I don't really worship the album 'Transformer.' It's not the best thing that Lou Reed has done.