George Harrison Quotes

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.

I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

I'm not the best at choosing what's good and what's bad. I wouldn't even know what's a good pop song and what's a bad one. With that said, I wanted to say what's true to me. Some people might say that the Skrillex record was pop, but that was just about the chemistry between me and my boy.

I'm not a great lover of Madonna's voice. She's done very well with what she's got, and I'm sure my voice turns her right off, but she's not my favourite singer.

The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.

I never liked blues and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

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.

The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?'

The people that call me to play on records call me because they think that I will suit their music. And the people whose music I suit are by and large people that I'm a fan of.

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

I don't like talking about music.

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

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

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

There was a period of time where I really hated rock music.

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.

To me, New Order split up when Bernard and I stopped writing together. We started Joy Division together; we started New Order together.

Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?

I listen to some really bad country.

When I was growing up, my brother liked the Beatles, and I liked the Rolling Stones. I think if I were a girl, Keith would be the one I fancied.

I love all types of music... but pop is where my heart is at.