Tyler Joseph Quotes

I know music is subjective.

When you take your music around to your people in the city or your label, and don't nobody like it, but you really like it, and you like, 'Dang, these folks don't hear what I hear.'

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

There is nothing more useless than an album that you don't feel strongly about, out in the world.

I just got an ear for the kind of things I like.

I find that I like what I like. I like a strong melody, I like an inventive structure and I have to like the singer's voice or I have no interest in it.

My favorite band is Yes. They are all phenomenal musicians, and yes, this means I'm subject to ridicule from co-workers and occasionally from my wife, three kids, and even our Labradoodle pup.

How it's been with me, it doesn't really matter what kind of music it is as long as it's good and catchy and I enjoy it. That's why I know all these different styles of music, just because it's fun. Whatever is good, I like it.

I was introduced to classical music by my grandparents - my parents were mostly into folk and jazz. Even as a young man, I was literally unaware of the distinctions between any of that, and I still think it's pointless.

I think you get a lot of influence from what your parents play around you. So I always loved country, R&B and rock.

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

Pretty much everybody loves music. Like, there are those weird people that don't like music, and I don't really understand that at all, to be honest.

Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn't make you a fan.

I'm just done downplaying how much I love Radiohead and how massive of an influence they are on what I do, because it's pretty obvious.

I liked 'Ten Feet the first time I heard it and it became my first top 10.

When I was 12 years old, my dad got into country music. My first CD was Wynonna Judd, and I loved it.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

A lot of people that only like country music, they're not fans of mine.

Few people will appreciate the music if I just show them the notes. Most of us need to [hear it].

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.

Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.

The music speaks for itself!

I did not initially take to the music of the Ramones, because I had never really heard of them before. Allan Arkush had given me a cassette of the Ramones and said, "You're their No. 1 fan, so I want you to know all of their songs and fall in love with these guys." I put the cassette on and I remember running around the house going, "Oh my God. That's music?"