Professor Ho Tung-hung of Fu Jen Catholic University's Department of Psychology, who studies the sociology of popular music, says that Lin is one of the few Taiwanese musicians whose works have an air of realism.
研究流行音樂社會學、輔仁大學心理系助理教授何東洪則認為，林生祥是國內少數具現實主義色彩的創作人。