Tyler, The Creator Quotes

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?

You might have a favorite band and really dislike one of the records. That's fine.

I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

I make the kind of music I like.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.

I'm playin' the music I like.

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.

We're also passionate about music and very critical about the music that we listen to.

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.

My son always says I like very weird music.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

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 didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

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

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.