Whether we'd have gone beyond the quarter-final or not, it certainly tainted the experience".
His autobiography Tainted by Experience (Faber, £25) is even better than you would expect: illuminating about great music and musicians, crotchety, cheerful and highly enjoyable.
I do need to explore my faith, because it has got lost over the years and it has been kind of tainted through experience.
When John Drummond, then controller of BBC Radio 3, objected to a change at the corporation, an administrator accused him of being "tainted by experience".
It tainted my experience of the Olympics - it was our moment to come under the microscope and show that London can do it well.
If I don't perform the way I want, it always taints the experience.
Rather than taint the experience, though, I find this is part of the charm of exploring Morocco.
"Most of Obama's advisers aren't as tainted by that experience.
He said that while there might be some merit to that argument for certain directors, most are "tainted" by the experience.
China may have rejected her as somehow tainted by her experience under British rule, and may feel vindicated by her conversion to an explicitly pro-democracy stance.
The rest of the children in his class may well now have a negative view of people with Down's syndrome, unfairly tainted by one experience.
