Art & Creativity Quote by Rick Moranis

Moranis is doing something deceptively radical here: refusing the personality test version of culture. In celebrity interviews, taste is often performed as branding - the tasteful actor who only listens to obscure jazz, the “regular guy” who keeps it classic rock. Moranis sidesteps that whole economy with a shrugging openness: “I don’t limit my taste.” It’s less a boast than a rejection of the idea that liking the “wrong” thing needs explaining.

The line lands because it’s built on small, disarming admissions. “There’s some jazz that I like and there’s some opera” is purposely ungrand; he’s not claiming expertise, just pleasure. That modesty matters. It frames listening as curiosity rather than status, which is especially pointed coming from an actor whose public image has long been tied to approachable, everyman comedy. He’s not trying to sound cultured; he’s giving you permission to be uncultured in the best sense: unpoliced.

Then he shifts to genre as migration: “country music, but it crossed over to rock.” That’s a quiet argument about how music actually works in the real world - porous, hybrid, unbothered by the gatekeepers. “Crossed over” is the key phrase, a nod to the machinery of radio formats and marketing categories, but also to the listener’s lived experience: you follow the song, not the label. The subtext is a cultural one: taste isn’t identity; it’s movement.