Critics Quotes
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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
Frederic Chopin
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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.
Nicki Minaj
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A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I've always worked hard.
Adam Sandler
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I read the art reviews of my work. Some critics understand my art correctly, while some don't. I simply ignore the reviews written by the latter.
Yayoi Kusama
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Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.
Paul Stanley
Kiss
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It's probably your fiercest critics - not your compatriots - who have the sharpest, most resonant insights.
Umair Haque
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
Thomas Harris
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
Ruth Gordon
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I was never a critic.
Curtis Hanson
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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.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food unrefrigerated, but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms out of a field; have a very simple sense of humor which even my appreciative critics find tiresome; I go to bed late and get up late when possible. I do not travel much.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.
Armond White
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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
Seth Godin
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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.
Chuck Klosterman
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There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics.
Rick Allen
Def Leppard
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I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.
Edward Jay Epstein
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
Jonathan Swift
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You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
