Critics Quotes
-
I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
-
Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.
-
Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
-
Your sister knows everything to say to piss you off. But sisters tend to be each other's biggest champion and also their hardest critics.
-
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
-
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.
-
Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
-
To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.
-
There are no statues erected to critics.
-
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
-
The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
-
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',
-
It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
-
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
-
I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
-
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
-
If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
-
When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
-
The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
-
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
-
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.
