8 Quotes by Leticia Supple

You want to evaluate musical art on its own terms, first. It is only when you have a solid grasp of that, that you can start to speculate.

It is in their works, their intelligence, and in the deployment of their art that makes critics great, not necessarily the formal training they undertake.

You still need to be able to write, and to have a habit of writing - and if you can do this creatively, so much the better.

Ethnography is something you have actively be aware of doing; it's not passive work. It takes considerable conscious effort to do it well.

The best advice I can give you at this point, though, is to trust your gut and be honest. Write your own opinion into the review, support every single statement with good reasoning, so your readers know exactly why you are making hat statement. And make sure that nothing you write is generic.

The defining elements of criticism, the theory, the philosophy, and ideas behind it, are the same no matter what type of critique you're writing.

It is surprising how few people really understand or see what goes on around them, and how many fewer can recall it later on. The key is to practice your observational skills.

It is an opinion of mine - borne through long experience - that the best music writers are writers first. Hopefully they have an understanding of music, too, in any of its forms. It's bloody hard work to write about a time signatures when you have not a clue what a time signature is!