I have music I don’t like (modern country, pop, etc.) and I have reasons for not liking it (it’s formulaic, churned out like a product). This is because I like music because to me it is art. The kind of music I don’t like is not about art, it is about commerce. I recognize that I simply can’t enjoy music which lacks certain things. But I don’t think that makes me a “snob”. And the reason I say that is, if manufactured pop by made up bands on the Disney Channel, or manufactured country by shopped out songwriters in Nashville is what you enjoy, more power to you, I still say it’s music, and good is in the ear of the beholder, but it would be incorrect to call it art. That doesn’t mean every single thing I enjoy listening to is a masterpiece, not by a longshot. Some part of music to me is guttural…it’s about how I feel when I hear it…it may well have cheesy lyrics or repetitive chord structures (I know, it’s only rock and roll, but I like it). And speaking of that little quote, it comes from a band I can’t stand…there are a lot of people whom it could be argued are great and influential artists who just don’t do it for me, and that’s ME. I can’t even always tell you WHY I like a song or an artist….I let the music speak for itself. Some of my favorite bands are ones I could name and very few people would have heard of them..but then there are some artists who EVERYONE has heard of whom I love. And I suspect everyone can in some part identify with that…just because what doesn’t do it for me, does do it for you, I don’t look down on you. I might think you have shitty taste in music, but I realize that you might think the same about me…que sera sera.