Musical Evaluation Quotes

It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.

A musical education is necessary for musical judgement. What most people relish is hardly music; it is rather a drowsy reverie relieved by nervous thrills.

The only music I don't like is bad music.

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

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

To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.

If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings.

People believe that criticism should be objective, whatever that means, but I really don't understand what people mean by that. I guess if you're doing sonata-allegro procedure analysis, you can be objective for a page or two. But in pop? Really hard.

I think all recent music sucks, and that includes Type O Negative.

I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."

She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to break in their new paper shredder.

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind.

A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don't think it.

There's never been a Van Morrison album that I haven't immediately listened to, whether with delight or crushing disappointment.

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

The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.