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> [I gave up music criticism because of the increasingly obvious conflict of interest. I couldn't say anything bad about the records when I might be meeting that person's manager backstage an hour later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephin-merritt/i-gave-up-music-criticism-because-of-the-increasingly-obvious/)

[Stephin Merritt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephin-merritt/)

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> [There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary way of distributing what they talk about is through blogs and on the web. The line between professional…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terry-teachout/there-will-be-this-mix-of-people-like-me-who-write-for-major-national/)

[Terry Teachout](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/terry-teachout/)

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