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Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

Duke Ellington
Music, Thinking, Should Have
Mark Tucker, Duke Ellington (1995). “The Duke Ellington Reader”, p.334, Oxford Paperbacks
Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.