Seriously, that was what you were getting at?
If I were to make a confrontational objective claim about something based solely on personal preferences/subjective value judgements and my instinctive impression of what feels true to me, without informing any of that with any evidence, I would consider myself to be behaving arrogantly, which I didn't want to do.
You're saying that in a roundabout way, simply by suggesting this, I'm also dismissing as arrogant any other objective claim that, unlike what I'm doing, could be reasonably backed up by evidence, and that this, in itself is arrogant of me to say?
**** me. I realize I'm not super careful about my phrasing all the time, but this is getting stupid.
I think you're ignoring the context that the first part of that quote implies-- I'm "claiming" that it would be arrogant on those grounds (the statement being that "making active/confrontational objective claims without objective reasoning is arrogant"). Yes, technically this is absolutely still an objective claim, but it's one where I think the required rationale behind it is pretty intuitive and accepted-- If that is still considered arrogant, then I'm happy to be and continue to be guilty of that degree of arrogance.
And remember, I'm not saying that I'm not making any objective claims-- I'm saying I'm not making any objective claims about the correct evaluation of music. I am, however, making objective claims about logic/arguments, but those comments, I'm backing up with reason.