Quotes About Evaluation

We have always created - music, literature, art, dance. The art around us - or lack of it - may be a measure of how we're doing as individuals and as a civilization, so maybe we should be worried.

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

There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Listen to music you don't even like and see why you don't like it.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

The one true comment on a piece of music is another piece of music.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

We judge us by our names.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

The parent who could see his boy as he really is, would shake his head and say: 'Willie is no good; I'll sell him.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Never judge a philosophy by its abuse.

A man's final query is determined by how well he acts under pressure. If man can control his demeanor under extreme stress, he will be judged in a positive way.

Give me a one-handed Economist. All my economists say 'on hand...', then 'but on the other...

If mankind was playing a baseball game, he would still be choosing his lineup after the game was over.