Critics Quotes
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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.
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Always play to the cheap seats. That's where the critics sit. The people who sit up front don't come to hear you play; they come to sit up front.
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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.
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All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is.
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I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
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Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain.
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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.
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If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.
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You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.
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We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie.
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Since I won't let the critics seal my fate, they keep hollering I'm full of hate. But they don't really hurt me none, 'cause I'm doing good and having fun.
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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.
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I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think it's a craft. I think it's been really neglected - sadly. I think about the days of the great legendary rock critics. Who's going to become that when magazines and newspapers don't pay anyone properly or don't seem to respect the history or research that is required?
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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.
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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.
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Now everyone is a critic.
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Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
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Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
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I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
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If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.
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Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
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Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.
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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.
