Quotes About Integrity

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

Whether it's a huge hit or sold five copies, as long artistically and creatively I can stand by what I did, then I'll feel successful.

I think that I have sold out sometimes.

I have never sold my story, done 'Hello!' magazine, any of that stuff. I'm not guilty of exploiting my private life for cash and then saying, 'Oh, I don't want to talk about my private life.' I've never crossed that line.

I never sold out. I never made an album to buy a house.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

It is up to you civilians to give a hand to show that we intend to take our responsibilities to maintain the integrity of our Empire, by giving the world proof that we have not all sold out to the Jew or Plutocrat.

I've never put out a song that I wasn't completely proud of and that I didn't love. In that sense, I've never felt like I sold out in any way.

I was never a rah-rah person. I never sold drugs or did anything crazy.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

There aren't a lot of guys out there keeping it real. Everybody's been branded. Everybody's been bought and sold.

Our parents are beyond proud that we never sold out once and created something together.

I never want to record something that I'm not proud of just because I think it might be a big hit. There's no positive about that because if you record a song you hate and it's a big hit, then you're singing a song every night that you hate. And if you record a song that you hate and it isn't a hit, then you sold out for no reason.

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

I'm not in this to make money. I would not have sold my soul to be on 'American Idol.'

Jay and I used to talk about this: we never had a goal of making a lot of money. We had a goal of having a business of our own. And there were many times we could have sold out and had a lot of money. Billions. We just put it in our pocket and go home, OK? But that was never our goal.

The record books aren't going to lie. They aren't going to say I sold out. They aren't going to say anything.

I don't like it when I see my books sold cheaply.

It's hard enough to coach in this league when you're doing what you believe in. But when you have to try to coach something you may not be sold on, it becomes even more of a challenge. It's really hard.

It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.

I don't think I ever really sold out, and that made a difference.

And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.