Always Quote by Samuel Ervin Beam

The things that have been most popular with people have always been a total surprise, and so I've never felt like I could really…

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I've always thought it isn't that different from everybody else's.

— Brian Eno

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent.

— Cecil B. DeMille

Even personal tastes are learned, in the matrix of a culture or a subculture in which we grow up, by very much the same…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

— Brian Eno

I find it a huge strain to be responsible for my tastes and be known and defined by them.

— Jonathan Franzen

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

— T. S. Eliot

In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

— Russell Lynes

Trust is like an egg. Once rotten, it will never give you taste like a fresh egg.

— Fadi

You've got to change with the public's taste.

— Nat King Cole

Who is omnipotent or wise enough to decide each new standard of good taste? Or sensitivity?

— Cary Grant