Mel Brooks Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

  Mel Brooks

  Art, Musical, Criticism

• With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Birth, Inevitable

  History of the World: Part I, www.imdb.com. 1981.

• I have been lucky that some critics joined the mob in loving something I've done, or in appreciating it. I've been lucky. But most of the critics don't like what the people like. I think they have a very strange job, and they are meant to criticize.

  Mel Brooks

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 1, 2009.

• Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

  Mel Brooks

  Genius, Steps, Poetic

• Immortality is a by-product of good work. Masterpieces are not for artists, they're for critics. Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. My message to the world is 'Let's swing, sing, shout, make noise! Let's not mimic death before our time comes! Let's be wet and noisy!'

  Mel Brooks

  Artist, Swings, Together

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

  Mel Brooks

  Girl, Years, Peaches

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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