Quotes About Commercialism

I saw with open eyes Singing birds sweet Sold in the shops For people to eat, Sold in the shops of Stupidity Street. I saw in vision The worm in the wheat, And in the shops nothing For people to eat; Nothing for sale in Stupidity Street.

To consume is to be consumed by inauthenticity,

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

Most Americans have probably heard the song 'Santa Claus Is Coming to Town' about a billion times in the supermarket alone.

Broadway is not about surprises. It's about rewarding the putrid, formulaic crap that makes Broadway Broadway.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.

Maybe it's the TV commercials. They make you hate everything they try to sell. God, they must think the public is a halfwit. Every time some jerk in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck holds up some toothpaste or a pack of cigarettes or a bottle of beer or a mouthwash or a jar of shampoo or a little box of something that makes a fat wrestler smell like mountain lilac I always make note never to buy any. Hell, I wouldn't buy the product even if I liked it.

the daily papers were beginning to scream about how terrible it would be if you didn't get your Christmas shopping done early. It would be terrible anyway; it always is. It

He's a pretty serious believer.' 'Yeah? Funny how it doesn't get in the way of his commercial life.' 'Yeah, well. Organised religion, you know.

Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.

It worried me when Britney snogged Madonna. It looked a bit fake. It screamed 'We're in this for the money'.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I hate the things they preach. They found a gimmick that sells. The fact that they're making money off all these teenage kids who actually believe in their message is disgusting.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

My mother's illness fitted into this protest against the treatment of the sick who could not pay, the inefficiency of commercialism, the waste, the extravagance, and the poverty.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.