Quotes About Critics

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

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.

Critics of McKinsey (and management consulting in general) say that the Firm bases its solutions on the most current management fad—the favorite tool in its intellectual toolbox.

Critics I love every bone in their heads.

When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

When 'Destroyer' was first released, we got a strong backlash from our hardcore fans. After six months, the album was dead in the water. The critics didn't think much of it, either.

When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.

I only think in the following terms: writing, recording, releasing. That's what I have control of. What I don't have control is whether critics or the public like what I do.

Who are critics? Do they know about music? Have they proved themselves in the field? I remember, when we came up with the music of 'Dil Chahta Hai,' some of the critics said that the songs sounded like jingles.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce.

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.

At art school you realize that in order to stay engaged you have to ignore the critics, good and bad.

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.

If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

I suppose when people are criticising you and saying that you are not really worthy of going to such a club as Liverpool, it gives you a little bit more drive and more desire to prove them wrong. And that can only help you in the long run: make you a little bit tougher mentally.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.