Ability Quote by Todd Haynes

I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. From a filmmaker's standpoint, that's so…

— Todd Haynes

A lot of the time, artists and musicians can get criticised for being ignorant or silly or not understanding the real world. And I…

— Declan McKenna

I am really inspired by writers, and weirdly - respect music journalists, which I think makes me the exception amongst most musicians. I think…

— Emily Haines

I don't want to be the cranky old guy, but a lot of critics are too forgiving of mediocre artists. When you see these…

— Robert Hilburn

All artists, no matter who they are, have always come into contact with criticism. No one's gonna like what you do 100 percent of…

— Erika Jayne

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

— Oscar Peterson

Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they…

— Todd Rundgren

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

— Robert Breault

You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the…

— Amanda Palmer

One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going…

— Moby

If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they lose their…

— David Berman

Criticism, maybe cynicism, is just rampant in music, in creativity. Everybody has a perception and a set of opinions based on what that piece…

— Rob Halford