Maybe Quote by Stephen Hough

If you're playing a character that someone doesn't like, that's okay, but if you're voicing your own opinions, they actually don't like you!

— Jennifer Coolidge

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

— Tyler, The Creator

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make…

— Conor Oberst

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I…

— Andris Nelsons

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the…

— Gustave Flaubert

It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say…

— Mark Mothersbaugh

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how…

— Taylor Swift

If you pretend to be somebody that you're not when you write songs - and I did that on some of the early Styx…

— Dennis DeYoung

There's always somebody telling you what you're not supposed to like. But that's not the way I grew up.

— Vic Mensa

I'm not a down-in-the-dumps person. I think some people assume that I am because of the music I write.

— Sharon Van Etten

I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident…

— Hal David