The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. – Nelson Algren
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. – Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers. – Les Baxter
On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins. – Jon Landau
