Quotes About Criticism

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

If you criticise something then you have to have an alternative, but we do have to try and improve things.

If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can't swim.

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.

There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.

Don't be an art critic. Paint. There lies salvation.

Criticism is the price of ambition.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, they make bad movie after bad movie.

I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

If you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.

Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

If everyone liked what I did, I probably wouldn't be playing anything of depth.

It's hard as a person to just put your life out there for the world to judge. That's what music is and what you're supposed to do with the art, live and release it to the world.

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

The Beatles are not merely awful. They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.