Criticism Quotes
Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.
I didn't want to be part of that thing. I liked the town. I felt they exploited the shit out of that, going up there and getting 15 million people all in the same spot. That don't excite me. The flower generation - is that what it was? I wasn't into that at all. I just thought it was a lot of kids out and around wearing flowers in their hair taking a lot of acid.
The bootleg records, those are outrageous. I mean, they have stuff you do in a phone booth. Like, nobody's around. If you're just sitting and strumming in a motel, you don't think anybody's there, you know . . . it's like the phone is tapped and then it appears on a bootleg record. With a cover that's got a picture of you taken from underneath your bed and it's got a striptease-type title and it costs $30. Amazing. Then you wonder why most artists feel so paranoid.
It's the thing to do, to tell all the teeny-boppers, "I dig The Beatles" and you sing a song like "Yesterday" or "Michelle". Hey, God knows, it's such a cop-out, man, both of those songs. If you go into the Library of Congress, you'll find stuff a lot better than that. There are millions of songs like "Michelle" or "Yesterday" written in Tin Pan Alley.
Michael Jackson's album was only called Bad because there wasn't enough room on the sleeve for Pathetic.
I take everything that comes and let it bounce right off me because I know the time will come when nobody will be able to speak falsely.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay 75 pounds to see them should be shot.
I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.
You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.
When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.
These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again.
KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask and the mascara.
The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.
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