Quotes About Commercialization

The art, the greatness of the music, the experience of the music is what I'm about. I think most African artists have destroyed their artistry by commercialization, and I don't want to belong to that bag.

It took a long time for hip-hop to become commercial. Now there's all these big black icons that came from nowhere to somewhere. Look at Jay-Z! People stopped being threatened by the music and just started to appreciate that it's good.

I think we make too many records. One record a year is crazy to me. But some people have to sell tickets. The label has to meet their quarterly number: 'We need a record a year.' All of a sudden, the tail's wagging the dog. It's not the music; it's everything else making the music. That's just backwards. It's wrong.

Such experiences can make us bewail how the Western world gives itself over annually to its Claus-mass or commerce-mass. We celebrate a reworked pagan Saturnalia of epic proportions, one in which the only connection with the incarnation is semantic. Santa is worshiped, not the Savior; pilgrims go to the stores with credit cards, not to the manger with gifts. It is the feast of indulgence, not of the incarnation.

I find rebellion packaged by a major corporation a little hard to take seriously.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Everyone's talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it's quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Although television and newspapers have played the biggest role in hyping up the World Cup, they are at the lowest end of the megabuck chain.

I used to live above Manganaro's, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn't Disneyland. Now it's so touristy and full of bright lights, I can't stand it. It's like going to a big mall.

It feels as if it has been ages, doesn't it, since sports was something other than a playful preamble to an advertising career?

The Disney parks are scripted, and I hate that. Hate it. I think what they are doing down there in Orlando is fun-pimping...

The problem for startups and large companies alike is that employees often follow the products they develop as they move from phase to phase. A common practice is for the inventor of a new product or feature to manage the subsequent resources, team, or division that ultimately commercializes it. As a result, strong creative managers wind up getting stuck working on the growth and optimization of products rather than creating new ones.

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Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

Commercialization of assets off the planet would mutually reinforce the growth of interplanetary communication.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

Branding your song is the worst thing you can ever do. That's turning your song into a product.

I've never commercialized my music. I've seen that ruin too many people who think two-minute ditties are the answer.

I truly believe heavy metal has gone south. Too many people are focusing on, will the songs be on the radio, will the shirt be in Hot Topic?

Many companies and publications don't understand what it means to be body positive or what it means to be plus-size. They're just trying to capitalize on the term because it's a hot topic.

It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.