Daniel Levitin Quotes

I don't have to save rock. I don't even like rock that much.

Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.

I was raised on pop music. Anything classical ran together in a complicated blur.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.

I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But some people love some of that stuff.

I like rock music. I like jazz better, though.

I think everyone has such varied taste in music.

My perception is that there is no distinction in music as many people perceive. The difference lies in the way you hear the music.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

Depending on which day, and how I am feeling on that day, I have a different favorite song on the album. One day it might be 'Karma', and other days it is 'Stay For A While'

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

I've never been a particular fan of any genre.

I know music is subjective.

I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

I do understand that not everyone is going to sit and listen to an Enya album. When someone says it's not their cup of tea, it's not their kind of album, that's fine by me.

We are just fans of music, we are not fans of a specific kind of music. We just happen to be a rock band. Until we explain ourselves, sometimes people don't understand why we limit ourselves to just being a rock band. It's because that is what we like doing.

If you got in my truck, you were listening to country music, and that's the way it was for a long time. I'm a little more open to other sources of music now, a lot more. But for the formative years, I was just very into country.

I listen to jazz, pop, rock, R&B. It really doesn't matter to me.

I listen to anything country and anything classical. Two great extremes.

I like all types of music. Even though rap music is 80 percent of what I listen to, it's not the only thing I listen to.

I have such an eclectic taste. I like listening to classical music and pop music.