Critics Quotes - Page 11

I don't make music to prove all the critics wrong. I do it to prove all my fans right.

Western man, especially the Western critic, still find it very had to go into print and say: "I recommend you to go and see this because it gave me an erection."

I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

I love magazines and film critics, so I eat it up. I'm not one of those people who says 'I never read anything.' I generally read all of it.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

As an actor, you get humbled all the time. Everyone is a critic.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically in public.

One can be a good critic and a moral observer, but one remains professionally detached as a writer and a filmmaker.

Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.

I never wish for critics.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

Some critics have suggested that Ronald Reagan succeeded in a series of careers, ultimately as a two-term president of the United States, by a series of fortunate accidents. Such a criticism is not backed by the evidence. It is true, though, that Reagan's approach to work and life was not conventional.

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work.

My biggest critics have never read me.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

I don't know how to make the critics happy!

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.