Belinda Carlisle Quotes

I'm sure everyone has many types of music that they enjoy.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

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

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.

I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

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 was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

Everyone deserves music.

People always tell me I'm the complete opposite of Chief Keef and act like I'm supposed to stop him from making his music. But I like Chief Keef, so it's always super awkward. I just make music I like.

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Music is subjective to everyone's unique experience.

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

I know music is subjective.

I think I'm sort of blind to genre. As long as it has a sort of honesty about it, which I think you'll hear in whatever music you respond to, then I think it doesn't need to be called anything particularly.

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.

I love pop music. I've tried to always be honest about that.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.

I think, until I was 16, classical music had just seemed like a little bit of a rhythmic wasteland for me. Coming from bluegrass, where one conducts oneself rhythmically, it seemed like such a different approach, and at that point the difference that I was noticing was a real turn off to me.

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

A lot of music that's my favorite doesn't sound like the music I write.

Great music is the only genre that actually matters, and the members of that club are far more similar to each other than they are to any genre they might be commonly associated with.