Famous quotes by Critics

"A Boston man is the east wind made flesh"

Thomas Gold Appleton, Critic

"The thing is that they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Well, I think one of the reasons Chicago became so popular as a filmmaker location is because New York had been used so many times that Chicago, I think, was rediscovered maybe in the late '60s, early '70s, for a long time as a new location"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning"

George Steiner, Critic

"To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war"

George Steiner, Critic

"Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence"

George Steiner, Critic

"When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean, really the sense that you get is society running down"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"And doing so, you can recreate yourself, and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral, if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"That's why I've always been appreciative of truly creative radio commercials"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Sometimes a 3-1 favorite loses. That's why they call it gambling, and that's why they keep flipping over the cards"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life"

George Steiner, Critic

"There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness"

George Steiner, Critic

"The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion"

George Steiner, Critic

"The age of the book is almost gone"

George Steiner, Critic

"The great thing about The Clash, of course, is that they keep searching for answers beyond that"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"I mean, Iggy and The Stooges' first couple of albums, I think, sold twenty five thousand between the two of them, you know, and so, to talk in terms of an underground, I mean, you have to go really to the independent labels and things like that"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Here we are in the 70's, when everything really is horrible, and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television, everything, everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring, and really evil, ugly, and worse"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place"

Lester Bangs, Critic

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