Music Ignorance Quotes

Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.

Starting out really punk came from not knowing any better and listening to music like that, not knowing how to play music - well, still not knowing how to play music.

My parents were simpletons. Everyday living was a big thing in that small village where I was born. They had no clue about music.

More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

I don't like to hear someone put down dixieland. Those people who say there's no music but bop are just stupid; it shows how much they don't know.

Nobody in my school knew who Bill Monroe was, or Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs, and barely Johnny Cash. Nobody spoke that language. I proceeded to get myself kicked out.

The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I think the guy who tells you he knows about music is really dumb, or he's lying to himself.

You know, Equal Interest played at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival Awards and not one musician from that category was even thought of. Even thought of! The idea, that here's this vital energy, and that element doesn't even know it exists!

No, I didn't hear about 'Live Aid.' I was in prison, and we were not allowed newspapers in prison.

The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a clue, and they don't care. You tell them that, and they go, Yeah? So, your point is?

I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.

I don't listen to the albums that I make, and I don't listen to a lot of music as a whole.

I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much. Take dance music: I like enough of it and its history to be able to say a word or two about this or that record, but I'm nobody's authority. I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to.