Benny Green Quotes

My son always says I like very weird music.

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

Some people just can't get over their own hang-ups to listen to my music.

There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.

All I can say is thank God my stepdaughter's favourite band in the whole wide world is The Beatles. We do have dance parties to 'Wannabe' though.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

The most important thing is that you like the music.

Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

I should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

I never listened to country music growing up.

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical.

I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.

My actual taste in music is pretty bad, I think.

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.