[4] Scott Yanow includes Dim the Lights in his list of Murphy's "other worthy recordings of the past 20 years" in his book The Jazz Singers: The Ultimate Guide.

[5] Murphy biographer Peter Jones thought the results of the overdubbing of the three songs of the medley in track 4 to be a muddle.

[1] In a DownBeat article from 1997, Dan Ouellette called Dim the Lights "a superb duo recording".

[2] Writer Jim Santella called Dim the Lights a "highly recommended album" in a review in 2000.

[6] In A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, Will Friedwald said, "Dim the Lights teams him with Carter veteran Benny Green, and with his usual plethora of ideas, some brilliant and some bizarre".