Tony Levin Quotes

The greatest thing about music is everyone has their own style, and I respect all styles of music.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

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

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

Our music, you either get it or you don't. There's no middle ground.

I don't like rock. Honestly, I like to listen to it, but it's not for me. There's a lot of musical genres that I find interesting, but they don't suit me. It's one thing to listen to different genres, but to perform a genre that isn't yours is counterproductive.

I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.

I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.

No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I know music is subjective.

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

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.

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

I've never been one of those people who say, 'Oh, well, if you play this kind of music, you can only like these kinds of bands.'

I really think there are two genres of music: good music and bad music. And I'm just trying to be on the side of making good music.

When all my friends were into punk, I'd be singing versions of soul ballads. I thought, 'Oh my God, I don't want them to know I'm doing this.' But I really enjoyed singing those songs.

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

Music is not a sport - one is not better than the other. You just like what you like and get inspired.

I like hearing fiddles, steel guitar, acoustics up loud - really rock & roll stuff but with a country sound behind it. That's just who I am. I'm not trying to prove a point; I am just doing what I like. But I don't have any problems with any other artist coming in and doing their own thing.