Music Subjectivity Quotes

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

In sports, stats count. Music? Not so much.

So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.

No genre of music is better than another, whether it's country, hip-hop, trap, classical, whatever. It's all music.

I have my own tastes and I have my my own... like, I dunno. I think it's really subjective; something that I think is a great song, is unlistenable to somebody else, which I've come to realise.

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.

That's what's interesting: When you release an album, everyone hears it their own way.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

I think I prefer for the listener to decide for themselves what stuff means, because I always hate it when I think a song is about a horse, and then it turns out to be about a damn trip to France.

A good song to one person could just be something mediocre to somebody else. It's always strange thinking about how songs connect with people.

I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

I'll admit that I'm not quite certain how to sum up an entire year in music anymore; not when music has become so temporal, so specific and personal, as if we each have our own weather system and what we listen to is our individual forecast.

I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

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.

It would be inadmissible if I would vent my opinion publicly. Not only could I harm the artist concerned seriously because people have so much respect for me and believe in me because of my musical accomplishments. And I could also antagonize people against me, because everyone has his own taste. We all make music, people can choose from that what they like. Every musician likes his own music the best, man. I don't want to attack that. I don't mind criticism, I can handle it, but most people can't".

Music is more objective, I think, than a lot of art is, but a surprising amount of it is cultural.

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.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.