John Rzeznik Quotes

I've heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it's usually just the people who don't like us who say it.

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

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.

Lots of people say to me, 'I completely hate Busted'. That's completely cool with me. I understand why.

If Paul McCartney tells me that so-and-so song is his favorite song, what do I care? What do I care what anybody else says?

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 should in fairness add that my taste in music is reputedly deplorable.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

The Jam were a good band, however I feel that the Style Council were better. A lot of people I know will disagree with me. Some things we did with The Style Council were misinterpreted or over their heads.

My actual taste in music is pretty bad, I think.

My parents loved classical music. And my father adored Mozart. But for some reason, I always had a reaction against it.

I don't care about the critics.

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

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

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

I am not a music snob. If anything, my musical taste is bad by any critical standards.

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I hate. There's a couple, and I don't even know exactly why I don't like them.

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

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?

I listen to some really bad country.