Music Critics Quotes

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

Radiohead is one of the bands I appreciate. That's a great career band. It's not like critics are comparing us to a flash in the pan.

The American Music Awards mean more to us; that's a people's award, and we're a people's band. The Grammys are the critics.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

There's always going to be people who say, 'This ain't country.' But that's fine; that's how it is. Those same people aren't listening to Sam Hunt, aren't listening to FGL. But obviously, a lot of people are.

I listen to songs that are usually on the music charts.

Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

As far as Cheap Trick albums, I like the Red Ant record, which is just called 'Cheap Trick,' from 1997; that's my second-favorite album.

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

You know what, Nickelback's alright.

Are Simon & Garfunkel cool, or are they just really uncool? I can't decide.

Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played.

I think there's a lot of writers who took rock music more seriously: Greil Marcus, Jon Landau.

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

I'm into Zwan. Zwan was good.

'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

I think that a lot of journalists don't really listen to music before they review it.

Oddly, I think that a lot of the haters of EDM and DJs are actually within the world of electronic music.

There's a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything - jazz, a long prison term, or what have you - anything but scoring a Hollywood musical.