Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. ~ Robert Duvall

When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up. ~ Ashanti

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ~ Elvis Costello

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. ~ Maria Callas, Maria Callas, 1981

A lot of people have the answers after the results come in. ~ Grady Little, 10/19/03

A critic is a man creater to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. ~ Richard Le Gallienne, Book of Poisonous Quotes

Don't listen to those who say you're taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. ~ Neil Simon

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