Critics Quotes
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I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.
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I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
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I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.
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The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
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I have a huge voice, so it's a bit more like a Janis Joplin vibe than a younger rock vibe. And I think that's what throws people because they don't know how to take me. Even critics - they don't know how to swallow me because they're like, 'Well, she came up like a total pop act',
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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I find that the critics of voluntary service are all too often those who are prepared to accept such services when they require them but deride them with cynicism and scepticism when they see others helping and being helped.
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Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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In some ways, it is difficult for contemporary composers to find an audience. Both men and women would love a culture that embraced and hungered for new music, as they did in the Classical period. I tell my students that they should just keep writing, write what pleases you, and don't worry about what people or critics may think about your music.
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There are no statues erected to critics.
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I'm my biggest critic. I want there to be no flaws when you hear it. When I think that maybe it's ready, I just hop in my car it's gotta have some bump - and go to corner stores, youngsters on the block, play it for anyone. If they get into it, I get a reaction, the song passes the hyphy test. If it's just cool, we throw it away; it's not going on the record. But if it makes you wanna move - seriously - if it makes you react the same way I felt, then it passes.
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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
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If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
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I was never a critic.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.
