Critics Quotes
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If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.
H. L. Mencken
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A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
Terry Teachout
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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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If I don't practise for one day, I know it; if I don't practise for two days, the critics knows it; if I don't practise for three days, the audience knows it.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Balliett
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Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
Justin Timberlake
NSYNC
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It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
David Galenson
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The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.
Seth Godin
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The greatest influence came from the television and the proliferation of magazines that included contents on pop groups. I believe that at the end of the 1970s, like is happening now, pop and rock were practically separated in the eyes of the public and critics, who considered the first more frivolous and easy and the second more serious and prestigious.
Gary Kemp
Spandau Ballet
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Meryl Stripe spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately biased on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.
Catherine Hardwicke
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Plays can outlast even the opinions of the chief film critic of The New York Times and that reviews, although they feel devastating in the immediate moment, are not remotely as significant as the significance you endow them with on the day that they appear.
Tony Kushner
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
Stephen Spender