Andrew Vachss Quotes

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Taste is idiosyncratic, so I don't love everything people recommend me, and I don't love everything my friends love.

I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.

I like what I like and not what I'm supposed to like because of mass rating. And I very much dislike the things I don't like.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

I think in some ways, it can do a listener a disservice to explain a song. I think I'd rather leave a little room for people to put themselves in it.

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Music is so subjective and personal, I don't expect people to like everything I do. But that's life and you have to live unapologetically.

Trends keep changing, but I have and will always do what I like to do!

Everyone has their own taste, and you can argue about taste.

You should be able to do you. That's what differentiates an artist from a singer.

I don't like to judge. Fashion is a form of expression, so to each their own.

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

I always have a problem liking things that I'm told I should like. This has been the problem with most of the Wonders I have seen so far. The fact that this one is called the 'Great' Wall of China annoys me. I'll decide if it's great or not. It might end up being the 'All Right Wall of China' to me.

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.

I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.

I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

Each man has his fancy.

Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.