Critics Quote by David Lee Roth Download Open image “Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.” — David Lee Roth ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I don't like critics; I really don't like them. I think most of them are ignorant and don't have a clue! — John Rzeznik Copy Share Image
When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
CRITICS are people who aren't happy with themselves and love to find faults in others. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I'm gonna abandon my spirit to them, which is actually what I attempt to do. You work yourself up into that state and you… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Somebody asked me the question not too long ago: 'Dave, do you think the music business has turned corrupt.' I said: 'Absolutely not -… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
“Money can't buy happiness but it can buy a huge yacht that sails right next to it.” — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I am a one-trick pony. If you tell most people to draw a picture of a tree, they'd draw 35 branches and 10,000 leaves. I will draw you a tree with four branches and three leaves, and I'll spend the rest of the week drawing inside of each leaf. In terms of the grand gesture, I reserve that maximum turbo… — David Lee Roth Copy Share
If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here...… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it. — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should… — Mark Steyn Copy Share
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up to "Slaughterhouse-Five" do possess a distinctiveness that will insure… — Michael Dirda Copy Share
David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage the flow of its capital. Rockefeller was born to it, and he has made the most of it. But what some critics see as a vast international conspiracy, he considers a circumstance of life and just… — Bill Moyers Copy Share
