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“The people with the loudest radios have the worst taste in music.”

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Book:Lost in ‘96

Source: Lost in ‘96

“Bad music will damage your mindset, but Good ones will renew your mind.”

Music Mindset Bad Music

Author:Oliseh Udogwu

“There's work to do.”

Terrible Awful Bad Music

Author:Alien Ant Farm

“You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great.”

Knows Needs Said Play Young Limits Busy Managers Drummer Dough Bad Music

Author:Aimee Mann

“Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.”

Written Modern Music Is Significance Bad Music

Book:The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music

Source: The Occasional Writings of Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock): Early music

“I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s and lots of hair bands. I find it utterly impossible to love a song until I know every single word, so listening to live music or new bands is pretty much out.”

Knows Whole Song Stuff Numbers Wonder Impossible Hair Listening Band Including Awful 80s Ipods Single Word Live Music Bad Music Hair Bands

Author:Lauren Weisberger

“A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.”

Scene Dramatic Good Movie Bad Music

Author:Joel Surnow

“there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.”

Want Kind Two Music Is Bad Music

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“In a way, to have whatever people talk about as "crossover success," I think it means you start making bad music. I mean, when I'm flipping through the channels and see the VMAs or something, I don't really see any music there.”

People Thinking Way Mean Crossover Bad Music

Author:Conor Oberst

“It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.”

Certain Environment Listening Creating Music Is Environmental Mood Listening To Music Playing Music Bad Music Creating Music

Author:Avey Tare

“In the digital age we're in now, with satellite radio and Pandora and stuff like that, it's not about, "I listen to this kind of music." It's about, "I listen to good music and bad music."”

Kind Age Stuff Radio Digital Satellites Digital Age Pandora Bad Music

Author:Eric Church

“Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.”

Results Music Is Granted Bad Music

Author:Carlo Grante

“Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.”

Strong Music Is Very Strong Grammar Bad Music

Author:Carlo Grante

“Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.”

Ifs Important Accepting Boring Pops Classic Good And Bad Derogatory Bad Music

Author:Luciano Pavarotti

“I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?”

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Author:Questlove

“Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history. . . . All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago. All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written”

Today Three Sound Interest Alive Written Modern Century Students Periods Music Is Musical Yesterday Significant Significance Old Fashioned Ageless Old Music Bad Music

Author:Peter Warlock

“Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.”

Thinking Difficult Term Music Is Pops Pop Music Bad Music

Author:Nina Persson

“With The Pogues, at least the first three albums I'll stand by completely, yeah? Because I was in artistic control then, yeah? And the last couple of albums I'll stand by anything that's got my name on it, yeah? But I'll stand by anything that is on The Popes' albums, you know? I wouldn't put stuff out that I didn't like. I don't put out bad music. And I can tell the difference. I know that.”

Knows Firsts I Can Lasts Three Names Stuff Differences Couple Yeah Albums Artistic Pope Bad Music

Author:Shane MacGowan

“I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.”

Simple Ignorance Willing Comfortable Faults Complexes Cruelty Occasions Privacy Patriotic Devoted Vessel Opinionated Allergic Bad Music

Author:Bernie Taupin

“Bad music disturbs me, but wonderful music disturbs me even more.”

Wonderful Bad Music

Author:Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

“A movie's a movie - you know I'm a massive old film buff - but it's still something to me, music: I can still close my eyes like I was when I was a teenager, and it can still make me weep or make me angry or make me, even if it's bad music, crack up.”

Ifs Knows Stills I Can Eye Film Angry Teenager Massive Cracks Make Me Angry Bad Music

Author:Karen Elson

“If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

People Ifs Play Funny Music Witty Listening To Music Playing Music Art And Music Mimicry Musical Life Bad Music

Book:The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

Source: The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings

“I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.”

Hard Funny Hours Music Wonderful Fronts Computer Treats These Days Cute Goddess Distracted Boyfriend Bad Music Cute Boyfriend

Author:April Winchell

“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”

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Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.”

People Thinking Heart Art Stills Form Rocks Changed Exciting Yeah Revolutionary Rock N Roll Rubbish Bad Music

Author:Nick Cave

“There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.”

Kind Two Funny Music Humorous Bad Music

Author:H. L. Mencken

“A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.”

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Author:Ernest Newman

“Emo is pathetic. It's a tired attempt at making bad music cool, all while rocking dumb haircuts and unisexual belts. Furthermore, adding the suffix '-core' to a description doesn't make it innovative. It makes you look like a tool with no imagination.”

Looks Imagination Tools Tired Core Dumb Memorable Description Belts Innovative Pathetic Haircuts Emo Bad Music

Author:Corey Taylor

“If you give the government the right to determine the consumption of the human body, to determine whether one should smoke or not smoke, drink or not drink, there is no good reply you can give to people who say, More important than the body is the mind and the soul, and man hurts himself much more by reading bad books, by listening to bad music and looking at bad movies. Therefore it is the duty of the government to prevent people from committing those faults. And, as you know, for many hundreds of years governments and authorities velieved that it was their duty.”

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.”

Light Differences Music Serious Acknowledge Songwriting Composer Bad Music

Author:Kurt Weill

“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”

Ifs Music Duty Conversation Musical Bad Music

Author:Oscar Wilde

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

Bad Music

Author:Quincy Jones

“There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.”

Musician Musical Sarcasm Sarcastic Bad Music

Author:Isaac Stern

“You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.”

Book House Missing Listening Opposites Ugly Architecture Block Towers Bad Music

Book:The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Prize : Presented to Renzo Piano

Source: The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1998: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Prize : Presented to Renzo Piano

“A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.”

People I Can Sound Pieces Taste Piano Decent Interpreter Bad Taste Bad Music

Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.”

Knows Form Audience Happenings Jazz Bad Music

Author:Pat Metheny

“For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.”

May I Can Results Forever Records Wonderful Experiments Evening Terrified Hideous Bad Music

Author:Sir Arthur Sullivan

“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.”

Forever Records Terrified Hideous Bad Music

Author:Sir Arthur Sullivan

“Bad music can make you weak.”

Weak Guitar Bad Music

Author:Ry Cooder

“Life is too short to play bad music”

Play Life Is Guitar Too Short Life Is Too Short Bad Music

Author:Bob Brozman

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