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Critics are eunuchs at a gang-bang.
George Burns
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Elvis Costello
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people
who can't talk for people who can't read
Frank Zappa
1980
I wanted film critics who could cover shipping disasters and
general reporters who could interview film stars.
Arthur Christiansen
These were the pained words of the editor of the
'Daily Express' after his film critic Cedric Belfrage,
sent to interview film stars arriving at Southampton
on the 'Aquitania', returned to the office without filing
a story "because the liner had run aground".
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
American Indian Proverb