Quotes About Commercialization

The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree that art and everything related to it has become one of the most trivial activities of our epoch.

There are some artists who are doing some good music, especially those who are independent, but with labels, I say that I get the feeling of selling soaps.

but is in danger from the American evil of commercializing even the sacred festivals.

So many things for me are unfortunate in the commercialization of something that is special. It's like when Led Zeppelin appears in Cadillac commercials. There's something that is taken away from your love of this thing and your connection to it.

Zombies are so popular. There's a lot of chaff out there. For every one person who is legitimately passionate about zombies, there are a hundred people who are thinking, 'Hey, I can make a buck off of this.' The problem is that some of their stuff is so lame.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

That Hollywood 'LotR' movie really sucked, and was a true turn-off. That's what Hollywood always does, even to good stories.

Animation should be an art…what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade…not an art, but a trade…bad luck.

I was told that a scientist managed the company and that he had the instinct, as a scientist, to just let scientists look wherever their instinct took them. Commercialization came later.

Even the apples we see in the stores are to be regarded with some suspicion: original apples were devoid of sweet taste and fruit corporations bred them for maximal sweetness—the mountain apples of my childhood were acid, bitter, crunchy, and much smaller than the shiny variety in U.S. stores said to keep the doctor away.

Give humanity a truly unlimited field, and it would fill it with Happy Meal toys and holographic sports-star, collectible trading card game art.

You have to be very careful. If you over-commercialize a social mission, it completely loses its soul.

I grew up watching people and companies commercialize Black History Month. I watched old McDonald's commercials, and they'd blacken up the commercials for 28 days then go back to normal in March. It got annoying to me.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I don't think are good for movies. They're trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

There is an entire industry out there that is aimed at making spiritual people feel special—all in return for a fee.

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

Eve didn't get it, just didn't get it. Who the hell decided everyone was supposed to go mad with romance and gift buying on some random day in February? Hadn't everybody just gone mad with good cheer and gift buying in December? ....... When would it end?

You know how I feel about love. It was invented to sell wedding cakes. And vacations to Waikiki.

I'll tell you, Nashville ruined country music.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

the "advertising lords" of Madison Avenue who "had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.

The assumption now is that the interests of the brand and of the game overlap to the degree that cricket need hardly be mentioned.

That's just the way the world's going - everything has to be so instantly commercial that it kills anything that's a little bit underground instantly.

Everything's so commercialised it shuts down the underground.