John Thorn Quotes

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

I understand what sabermetrics get across, and what they're getting across is to keep it simple. Especially for me, as a pitcher, that's something that helps me - finding ways to keep it simple. Numbers can only tell so much.

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

You like some things, you don't like others. It doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the others, it just means you have an opinion.

There are only two mantras, yum and yuck, mine is yum.

What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.

Beauty is an opinion not a fact.

I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But I do.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

I mean, shout out to the people that get dressed everyday and want to take that picture everyday. I would much rather post pictures of [my girlfriend] than of myself.

Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there.

Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the world we, people who look like me, live in - and by the world, I mean our personal experience of it.

Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyse and then interpret their meaning and importance.

Sex may be a little more factual than love. You know whether it's good or bad. You know whether you liked it or not. You're not going to change your mind about it ten years later.

What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.

More and more into natural feelings rather than convoluted feelings or tastemaking or what have you. You always need critique, rock critics, but you can't take away people's taste. People are starting to, very slowly, do their own thing.

You have to understand that nothing appeals to everybody.

I'm in trouble if they can't, because everyone's taller than me, and if that's true, that means I can't have any friends! Alison [McGhee] and I look very much like, I was going to say Bink and Gollie, but I meant Mutt and Jeff. We look ridiculous when we walk down the street together, because she's so tall and I'm so short. But yes, tall people and short people can, and should be, friends. I, personally, like being short. I think it makes things easier.

One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.

I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar--for me. I am the only judge... There are no standards--no real standards. Each man's preference is the only standard for him, the only one which he can accept, the only one which can command him.

Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about - you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.