Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love.
I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy.
I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.
There's always a reaction based on fear. People assume if you're criticizing a decision to go to war, then you're saying something against the soldiers-which is not the case.
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing, as critics of reform fear.
In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics.
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.
Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.
Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.
The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing.
I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.
Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
