Critics Quotes
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
Maya Angelou -
There will always be critics of the potato because it is lowly and humble, ... But it still represents $2 billion of revenue a year in the state of Idaho -- and thousands of jobs.
Frank Muir
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Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
Aloe Blacc -
I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls -
Every time I work out in the gym, every time I train, I know I'm going to do well. But I like surprising the fans, the critics, the people who doubt me.
Oscar De La Hoya -
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
Cory Booker -
No one has ever built a statue to a critic, it's true. On the other hand, it's only the people with statues that get pooped on by birds flying by.
Seth Godin -
If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.
Jason Aldean -
The army of the emboldened and gleefully ill-informed is growing.
Andrew Breitbart -
Often President Obama's worst critics are Senator Obama and candidate Obama.
Peter Schiff -
Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
Ernest Hemingway -
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner -
I don’t know why jazz critics don’t like contemporary jazz. I think a lot of them feel that straightahead jazz has to be championed by them. And I think there’s resentment involved that the kind of music I’m playing will sell more, and has more radio play.
Boney James
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The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
Willard Scott -
I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.
Whitney Houston -
If someone is critiquing the actual technique involved, that’s a whole other story. Mainly a lot of music critics have a tendency to just say they don’t like it.
Boney James -
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney -
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
William Cowper -
But to say that you don’t like that kind of music just because it IS that kind of music is silly. It’s a very big issue, a big controversy amongst jazz critics.
Boney James
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The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
Angus Wilson -
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth
T. D. Jakes -
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
Dickey Betts -
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view.
Ang Lee