- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Commercially Quotes
Balancing substance with mass appeal.
These quotes sit at the tension between artistic integrity and commercial reward - a songwriter refusing fluff, a designer resisting purely market-driven choices.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many mainstream winemakers use indigenous yeasts rather than commercially grown ones to ferment their grapes - precisely what natural winemakers advocate.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is music out there that is commercially driven, whether you like it or not. That's a peculiarly American innovation. We innovated the commercial music business.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a mission: To match the cover of 'Extraordinary' to the cover of the paperback 'Impossible,' which was commercially successful. Consider the outdoor natural setting, the single girl in motion with her hair blowing, and the cursive font used for the title; both covers have these in common.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first cellular systems didn't become commercially available until 1983. Most of the phones before then were in fact car phones.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
- Capture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't believe carbon capture is a proven, scalable, commercially available technology.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.
- Harm
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020