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Like Quotes

Quotes on what people like and why.

These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.

Quotes by Brian Clough

To me, scoring goals was just like other boys might regard delivering papers. I just did it - every day.

Quotes by Brian Clough

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

Quotes by Brian De Palma

I do like directing other people's material.

Quotes by Brian De Palma

I don't watch 'American Idol' - that'd be like getting divorced from somebody and then hanging out with them.

Quotes by Brian Dunkleman

It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy: the great comedy that comes from great pain.

Quotes by Brian Dunkleman

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Quotes by Brian Eno

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

Quotes by Brian Eno

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

Quotes by Brian Eno

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Quotes by Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Quotes by Brian Eno

Painting, I think it's like jazz.

Quotes by Brian Eno

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

Quotes by Brian Eno

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

Quotes by Brian Eno

My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're...

Quotes by Brian Fallon

The Gaslight Anthem is very streamlined. We don't usually use organs and strings and things like that.

Quotes by Brian Fallon

Songs are like anything else - they dictate to you which ones go together and which ones don't.

Quotes by Brian Fallon

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

Quotes by Brian Fallon

I've always said it's easier for bands to make a hard stance - like, we don't do commercials or whatever, blah blah blah - when you've sold billions of records. It's super-easy to be righteous when you're rich.

Quotes by Brian Fallon

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

Quotes by Brian Ferneyhough

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of quotes are on the "Like" page?
These quotes use "like" in different ways — as comparison, as preference, and as a mathematician describing what interested him instead of computers. It's a varied, conversational collection.
Is there a quote about changing your mind over time?
Yes — one describes disliking Jane Austen in college, hating a specific novel, before eventually coming around to "good Austen." It's a relatable arc of a changing opinion.
What about quotes on confidence?
There's a memorable one about having "robust confidence" as a teenager that later became "constricted" by sensory experience in your mid-twenties — an honest look at how confidence shifts with age. If that resonates, Feel quotes covers similar emotional ground.
Is "I feel like I was born to make music" a good example of this page's tone?
Exactly — it's short, personal, and confident, which is typical of the quotes here. If you want more lines with that same sense of purpose, Know quotes is a good next stop.
How should I use these quotes?
They're great as captions for anything about personal taste, growing up, or finding your path — whether that's Always quotes for consistency or Go quotes for quotes about moving forward.

Other quotes describe a felt sense of calling, such as being drawn toward music, or confidence that shifted with age and experience. Continue to Feel Quotes or Go Quotes for related themes.