Robert M. Parker Jr. Quotes

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

I rate each album as better than the last one. That's how I see it.

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.

It just comes down to taste at the end of the day, and that's something you can't really analyze. Yeah, I think to have it all there is basically best, regardless of whether there's hiss there as well.

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges.

All the world is competent to judge my pictures except those who are of my profession.

It's not a science when you are judging art, but we'd be remiss to say you can't look at something and say, 'This is more well done than that.'

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy, and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

I don't have prejudices against anybody. I have opinions, based on a lifetime's experience.

Skating is a very subjective sport where fans have their favorites.

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

Do I believe it's possible that some young person, young voting actor, or even older voting member for the Emmys, would sit there and go, 'Yeah, that's a great performance, but oooooh, I just hate everything he stands for?' I don't believe that's possible.

As far as putting a rating on music like you do movies, I can see the common sense in that.

I don't know how they judge fights sometimes.

Food is like music. You've got two kinds, good and bad.

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

It's a very complex sport, so judging is going to be very complex, too. And not everyone is going to agree all the time on who wins a fight.

Different refs judge fights differently.

In my view, technology should only be used on objective situations - offside, in or out of the box, over the line or not - but when it comes to subjective situations, people are never going to agree. That's sport.

If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not. Art is a bit more slippery than that.