Criticism Quotes

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.

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.

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.

The only way to deal with critics is to go over their heads direct to the public.

It is the same with those who criticize. They desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the power I was sent forth, for the world for the children. But have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now.

You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It puts me on a far higher place than any politician.

Religion and law try to escape from criticism, religion by saying that it is divine and law by showing that it is powerful.

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives.

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet - dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list - the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.

The weapon of criticism can never replace the criticism of weapons.

To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.

Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.