Hannah Arendt Quotes

I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste.

Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.

Of course, design is a very personal thing: what I like, you may not like.

Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

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.

I think good taste is completely subjective. If you enjoy something, that's great! Enjoy it, and don't let anyone tell you not to.

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

I love art, but I'm not an academic; I just like what I like.

Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it.

I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.

I don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or the other, it's just not for you.

I don't think you should criticize people's music because maybe it just isn't for you.

I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.

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

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.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

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.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

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.

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

Good taste is always bad.

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.

Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.