“I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it . . . and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.” ArtI CanFormEnjoyMusicCriticsFolksCriticizeFolk MusicCommercial Music Author:John Lennon
“If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.” IfsKnowsTwoThreeMusicPracticeOne DayCriticsGuitarTwo Days Author:Jascha Heifetz
“One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.” ActionCultureMusicRolesPlayerTiredCriticsPianoAustraliaUpstairsArt CriticPlayer Piano Author:Robert Hughes
“I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what he did.” ShouldLittlesDoneMusicShould HaveJazzCriticsCarried Away Author:Duke Ellington
“Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.” WellsWarFunnyMusicHumorousFairsCritics Author:Victor Borge
“If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.” IfsKnowsLifeTwoThreeMusicPracticeJazzCriticsJazz MusicTwo DaysJazz MusicianMusic PracticeJazz Band Author:Louis Armstrong