“One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.” — Terry Teachout Art making Copy Share Image
And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going… — Terry Teachout Advice Copy Share Image
Direction is the most invisible part of the theatrical art. It's not like the conductor in the symphony orchestra performance because he's… — Terry Teachout Art Copy Share Image
We are born into a vast room whose walls consist of a thousand doors of possibility. Each door is flung open to… — Terry Teachout Born Copy Share Image
I had a checklist in my mind of the things that make a biography practical. Is the source material centralized? Is it… — Terry Teachout 20th century Copy Share Image
Virgil Thomson, the great classical music critic, who was also a composer, but said that criticism was the only antidote he knew… — Terry Teachout Art Copy Share Image
Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments. — Terry Teachout Books Copy Share Image
I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short. — Terry Teachout Graduation Copy Share Image
It's actually now, more common to see conceptual productions of Shakespearian, which Hamlet is played as a Nazi, or a homosexual, or… — Terry Teachout Common Copy Share Image
(R)eality TV (is) a medium dedicated to the proposition that with the help of judicious editing, carefully chosen half-wits can hold the… — Terry Teachout Attention Copy Share Image
If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.… — Terry Teachout Clever Copy Share Image
The problem with the Jude Law "Hamlet" was simply that it wasn't unpredictable, that it was a very down-the-center modern production. You… — Terry Teachout Black Copy Share Image
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of… — Terry Teachout Art Copy Share Image
I've always loved opera; it never occurred to me that I would write a proper libretto. One of my closest friends is… — Terry Teachout Closest friends Copy Share Image
I should also mention that the Neue Galerie is piping music into the galleries where "Klee and America" is hanging, a practice… — Terry Teachout America Copy Share Image
There will be this mix of people like me who write for major national newspapers and amateur critics, practitioner critics, whose primary… — Terry Teachout Criticism Copy Share Image
Your regional newspaper, and I like to use this example, in your local museum buys a Picasso, that's news especially if they've… — Terry Teachout Art Copy Share Image
The most important thing to remember is that the composer is a senior partner. You cannot force a subject on a composer… — Terry Teachout Accepting Copy Share Image
I wouldn't care to speculate about what it is in Westlake's psyche that makes him so good at writing about Parker, much… — Terry Teachout Appreciate Copy Share Image
The average age of the Jazz audience is increasing rapidly. Rapidly enough to suggest that there is no replacement among young people.… — Terry Teachout Age Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about theater is that anything, no matter how tendentious, no matter how stupid it sounds at first glance, can… — Terry Teachout Creativity Copy Share Image
I was interested in Armstrong to begin with because he is the most important figure in Jazz in the 20th Century. There's… — Terry Teachout 20th century Copy Share Image
This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published. — Terry Teachout Black Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in what I call practitioner criticism, which is when people who practice an art form start writing about it… — Terry Teachout Art Copy Share Image
The Armstrong record that I personally like the most, is a recording of a song by Harold Arlen called, "I Got a… — Terry Teachout 19th century Copy Share Image
