Critic Opinion Quotes

I don't know anyone actually who does care what a critic says.

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

To me, a critic is someone who gets paid for their opinion, and they're entitled to that opinion but I don't really put a lot of stock into their opinion. I'm going to cut the kind of records and the kind of songs that I like, and the kind of things that I enjoy doing. If critics dig it, that's fine, if they don't, that's fine.

I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

I'm not worried about what the critics say, or how they feel I should go with my career.

In fact, many rock critics look askance at explicitly political lyrics, which I think is pretty stupid, without denying that some political lyrics are also pretty stupid.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

I don't mind other guys seeing movies I want to see and then writing about them. That's fine, especially when it's the 'New Yorker''s Anthony Lane, because he knows this stuff pretty well.

I learned a lot about critics, not to really take them too seriously about movies.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I say to consumers: instead of relying totally on critics, drink what you like and like what you drink.

The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.

Critics in particular treat CGI as a virus that's infecting film.

'See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

I have never, ever sought validation from the arbiters of British poetic taste.

I don't know, I don't pay attention to critics anyway. They either like me or they don't, you know what I mean? I am too long in the tooth to worry about that.