Musical Bias Quotes

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

I was on the pro-Nirvana, anti-Pearl Jam bandwagon.

If Radiohead made a video where Thom Yorke was featured more than the other members, nobody would say anything.

I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

When I was growing up, the people who liked the Beatles, I didn't like, so I didn't pay attention to them.

I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.

You can never judge any music by their audience. That's the main reason people in England have a prejudice against someone like Skrillex. You judge people by their music. That's always been first and foremost.

I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'

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.

Music should be judged on what you hear, not what you think you might hear.

Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.

So much good music has been looked over because of preconceived notions of genre.

It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.

People do look at it as an insult that I say I don't listen to country music, which cracks me up.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

There's quite a stigma attached to country music in the UK - but I kind of enjoy that.

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals - because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.

The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is "wrong" and arises from insular ignorance.

Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.

I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.