David Longstreth Quotes

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.

I can't honestly say with a straight face that every Avenged Sevenfold album is my favorite.

Part of your process of becoming an adult is admitting to yourself that The Doors were a shitty band.

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

I pretty much like all music except for country. I'm not a big fan of country.

I definitely have favourites in terms of albums.

I think 'Invisible' is a great song, but I don't know how accessible it is.

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

If you only ever heard Lady Gaga, she's the most boring singer in the world.

When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

Music critics are part of the world, and I am part of the world.

I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'

For me, a perfect pop song is something like 'This Year,' by the Mountain Goats.

I don't really like Nirvana that much.

I don't care what 'Pitchfork' says. They write from a place that's a little too self-aware for me to really give a damn about what they're talking about.

I listen to some really bad country.

Most of the time when people say something sounds like Steely Dan, and I listen to it, it doesn't. And I'm not even sure what they're talking about.

If you're going to write about rap music and hip-hop, and you don't love it, then we don't need your opinion, and we revoke your opinion.

A lot of my friends hate my music. I have weird taste.

I have a thing about inane lyrics - the world doesn't need them.