Lil Yachty Quotes

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.

I love finding out why people don't love things. And if you ask people why they don't like things, particularly when they get into this sort of culture box, you find out that they're not liking things because of what people are going to think about them, and not because of what the things actually sound like.

If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story.

I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

The one thing about art is you can't question it. Everyone is looking at everyone else to find out what's cool. No one knows what's cool.

Anybody that doesn't like Cardi B a hater!

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

It's certain rappers that can really rap, that really spit all bars, so I understand why someone would say, 'You not a real rapper.' But the main thing is, if you can make good songs, who cares? So I don't know why guys be tripping on Drake. He makes great music. He's dope.

Rebecca Black 'Friday' song is the best song ever! Don't you agree!

I don't really have anything nice to say about pop-country radio.

Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

So many interviews, even ones that I consider really intelligent and good writers, will do the, like, 'Oh, you're not taking your clothes off like Miley Cyrus and all these girls' thing, which to me is just the weirdest thing to say to someone. ... Now when people are like, 'Tell me what you think of Miley!' I'll say, 'What do you think of Miley?' and they'll flounder and say, 'Well, I think she's really talented...' and I'm like, there you go.

You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

I can't stand any music that requires its singers to be so dumb they wear their baseball caps backwards.

You're nothing but an apple, a silly t-shirt, a catchphrase and a stupid haircut.

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.