Quotes About Commercialism

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.

I think I became less literary after I sold more!

My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

It cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Composing a melody or a western song is easier than composing a commercial number.

I love Michael Bay movies. I don't think I'd be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don't believe in, and you're doing it for a selfish purpose.

Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments.

Let's give our people what they want, which means fast food, cheap television, cars, and Levi jeans.

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.

I get offered to do stuff where the money's nice but it's not something I want to do - I get offered a lot of commercials too.

You feel pressured to do what you think the public wants, when in actuality the sales aren't reflecting what the radio is doing. Not in the least bit!

Sexual creativity is a mystery that will never be solved by commercialism.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

Charts and learning the politics behind making a record - it's pretty soulless.

But even a nice mom and dad like this can't really sense how their child's been assaulted by commercialism ever since she was little, how she's lived in fear of being eaten alive by the morons around her. They just don't get it. Mom always lectures me about not being afraid of getting hurt, but all she can imagine is the kind of hurt she's experienced herself. She has no idea of the threats that surround kids these days, how much we're bullied, how much hurt this causes.

Propaganda has become a substitute for ideas and ideology. Knowledge is confused with how we are made to feel. Commercial brands are mistaken for expressions of individuality. And in this precipitous decline of values and literacy, among those who cannot read and those who have given up reading, fertile ground for a new totalitarianism is being seeded.

no one in any commercial seems to be unhappy or angry, whatever the circumstances.

Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art that's only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess we're all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.

It was cold but she could handle it. It was light she missed, light that would've made things better – fuck the festive season, light was all anyone with half a brain wanted – the only good thing about all the fuss, the commercialism, the consumerism, the churchy crap with the kid in a manger and the we-three-wise-ass-kings: it was all just people looking for light.

Books don't get any more commercial and anti-chap than Stephen Fucking King (unless you want to talk about Dan Brown, but you can't compare the two because Dan Brown's not literary).

Education is no longer primarily intended to teach him to serve God, or to enrich his life, but only to give him a passport into the commercial scramble.