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Criticism Quotes

Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working with any good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one even knew the ABC of filmmaking.

You don't expect music to be brilliant when the films are so bad.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

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.

All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

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.

Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.

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.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

When I hear something that comes from me that makes me fall down off my chair, it's not often.