Top 100 Bad Music Quotes
#1. How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#3. If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
Howard Gardner
#4. The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
#5. 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.
Avey Tare
#6. I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
Mary J. Blige
#7. There's more bad music in jazz than any other form. Maybe that's because the audience doesn't really know what's happening.
Pat Metheny
#8. Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter.
Steven Adler
#9. 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.
Nina Persson
#10. It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.
David Geffen
#11. The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.
Carrie Brownstein
#12. I used to be afraid to use the word 'pop' to describe my music, but underneath my tough, bad-girl sound, there's some fun.
Elle King
#13. The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
Pete Seeger
#14. A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
Ben Lovett
#15. When you're done shooting, the movie that you're going to release when you're done shooting is as bad as it will ever be. And then through editing, and finishing the effects and adding music, you get to make the movie better again. So I'm really hard on myself and on the movie.
Barry Sonnenfeld
#16. Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
Carlo Grante
#17. James Brown was my favorite, my absolute idol. Every time I played with him was like a music lesson, and I never thought I could be so funky! I mean, a white boy from Canada - a Jew - getting down with his funky bad self!
Paul Shaffer
#19. Irving Berlin said, "Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it." That doesn't mean it's good or bad - that's the equivalent of arguing the merits of hotdogs versus hamburgers. What the hell difference does it make?
Lester Bangs
#20. I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
Willie Nelson
#21. I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block ... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.
Eminem
#22. Too bad people can't always be playing music, maybe then there wouldn't be any more wars.
Margot Benary-Isbert
#23. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
Morrissey
#24. 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."
Eric Church
#25. I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.
Simon Schama
#27. That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
Perry Como
#28. I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it ...
Dimebag Darrell
#29. I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
Joe Trohman
#30. I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
Jacob Artist
#31. Bad music is what will ruin music, not the instruments musicians choose to play.
Miles Davis
#32. There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.
Pepe Romero
#33. There are so many bad songs that have incredible videos. It's pretty amazing, actually. The power of putting images to music is hypnotizing. It's a real power. That's a realm that I've failed at completely.
Devendra Banhart
#34. Don't feel bad - if your iPod is full of music made by nice, well-adjusted people, it's probably also full of terrible, boring music.
Anonymous
#35. What surprised me most about fame is how unpleasant it can be. I used to think it was going to be so fun. I got excited about the parties. You don't anticipate friends being jealous of you and critics giving your music bad reviews. Media and rumors - that stuff hurts.
Eve
#36. Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
Ornette Coleman
#37. I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones ...
Stephen Stills
#38. The blues ain't nothing but a good man feelin' bad.
Leon Redbone
#39. It's like Duke Ellington said, there are only two kinds of music - good and bad. And you can tell when something is good.
Ray Charles
#40. I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
LeBron James
#41. Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music.
Taylor Swift
#42. I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.
Kaskade
#43. Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.
Aleister Crowley
#44. I always start with the lyrics, because starting with the music means the words will be bad.
Dan Bejar
#45. I'd never realized how bad that house needed music until I heard it, I knew right then that big houses need music more than little ones.
Charles Davis
#46. The music kicks in and maybe the bad times kick out and maybe the world's a little better for them than it was before.
Cath Crowley
#47. I pull out a zippered CD case, but unfortunately, it's slim pickens inside, and I say this not only because the choices are bad, which they are, but because there actually is a Slim Pickens CD inside.
Melissa DeCarlo
#48. On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music
Kurt Tucholsky
#49. I like to read. I've become obsessed with fiction. And it's too bad: I'm a musician many people love and I myself am not part of the music scene.
Glenn Branca
#50. I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood. I work with a remote so that I can change CDs instantly if I need to.
Cindy Sherman
#51. England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music ...
Frederic Chopin
#52. My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.
Arthur Rubinstein
#53. I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.
Alan Bleasdale
#54. I just don't like to get intimate. I don't want anyone to know what I feel and what I think, and if they can't get some kind of an idea of what sort of person I am through my music, then that's too bad.
Kurt Cobain
#55. I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.
Agnes Obel
#56. 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.
Nick Cave
#57. Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.
Lynn Townsend White Jr.
#59. You know things have gone bad when military marches pass for pop music.
James Patterson
#60. There are only two types of music.good and bad.
Buddy Rich
#61. I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.
Stephin Merritt
#62. I'm always writing music. I sort of do it obsessively, for good or for bad. It's good that it keeps me going, but it's bad because it really is sort of like an obsession where you can't stop sometimes and it'll keep you up at night and ruin your weekend.
Hamilton Leithauser
#63. Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.
Maurice Jarre
#64. All we can do is to make the best of our friends: love and cherish what is good in them, and keep out of the way of what is bad: but no more think of rejecting them for it than of throwing away a piece of music for a flat passage or two
Jon Meacham
#65. Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.
Blake Shelton
#66. I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.
Bobby Moynihan
#67. I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
Liz Phair
#68. I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly
George Harrison
#69. I really wanted to make the worst thing: the thing that even people who liked bad, terrible music wouldn't like - the stuff that people would ignore, always. Something really, really stupid. Something that is destined for failure.
Ariel Pink
#70. Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help ...
Walter Benjamin
#71. If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's enough bad, insincere music out there. I don't need to contribute to that.
Isaac Brock
#72. Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
Amy Lee
#73. Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.
The Beatles
#74. The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy.
Joseph Conrad
#75. Well, I'm very dyslexic, so I can't read music. It means I never know where I'm at so it's different every single time. I know when it works though. I might end up doing a bosa nova version of Bad Day when I get to Australia!
Daniel Powter
#76. That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are.
Elliott Carter
#77. I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.
Kurt Weill
#78. There's lots of interesting stuff happening in the world. Lots of good and bad things, and there's interest in music still, which there always will be, which is always a good thing.
Courtney Barnett
#79. There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.
H.L. Mencken
#80. I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.
Arthur Sullivan
#81. Does film music really matter to the average moviegoer? A great score, after all, can't save a bad film, and a bad score - so it's said - can't sink a good one.
Terry Teachout
#82. Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
Confucius
#83. I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.
Rosecrans Baldwin
#84. The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.
Lionel Richie
#85. I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet - I just like music.
B.B. King
#86. There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.
Louis Armstrong
#87. 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
Gram Parsons
#88. Similar to music, your words have a profound impact on your energy. If you speak with a positive, uplifting attitude, you'll find wonderful opportunities coming your way. If you constantly complain about the bad things around you or the negatives in your life, you'll appear to attract challenges.
Doreen Virtue
#89. It hurt me to be away from him. Some days I went crazy wondering what he was doing. And when I couldn't handle it, I practiced music. I really had Aspen to thank for me being the musician that I was. He drove me to distraction.
And that was bad.
Kiera Cass
#90. I want people to dance. I want people to feel good. You went to work, you feel bad - come here, feel good, dance. Don't leave the club feeling worse than you did before you got there! That's what music used to be for.
The-Dream
#91. Steady had always suspected Ethan "Ozzie" Sykes, despite his constant joking and bad taste in eighties music, was one tough motherfucker.
Julie Ann Walker
#93. Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.
John Mellencamp
#94. You reading this have undoubtedly met yours (or will); I met mine, and I'm sure he'll be back. He's got my address. He's a mean guy, a Bad Lieutenant, the sworn enemy of goofery, fuckery, pride, ambition, loud music, and all things nineteen. But
Stephen King
#95. Music is a permanent art, it will always go through phases where you like it and are in tune with it, but saying that music "got bad" is infantile. The same is true with your life.
John Darnielle
#96. Making music is like a form of religion for me, because it soothes your heart and increases the pleasure of your brain. Most of all, it's very enjoyable to express something that you can only hear and not see, which is not bad.
Ornette Coleman
#97. If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.
Confucius
#99. I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.
Tom Verlaine
#100. I hope I don't give music a bad name.
Tiny Tim
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