Commercial Music Quotes

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience. ~ Pete Seeger

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality. ~ Robyn

There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial. ~ Kenneth Edmonds

I think some people record songs and make records a certain way to cater to radio. If you're born to make commercial music that's cool. But if you're born to not make commercial records, maybe you're meant to cater to another market. ~ Bryan White

I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it ... and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy. ~ John Lennon

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial. ~ Chris Robinson

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial. ~ Mose Allison

The commercial music world which I had been a part of for so many years lost its sparkle. My focus became the creation of music which would slow down the brainwaves, so inducing a state similar to when we mediate. ~ John R. Levine

I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate. ~ Tommy James

I was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My interest in that whole world became very genuine, but perhaps started off a bit affected - a mixture of right and wrong reasons. I was always drawn to non-commercial music, perhaps pathologically so. ~ Jamie Cullum

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get. ~ Joseph Kosinski

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~ Leonard Bernstein

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people. ~ Christopher Owens

In my mother's church, everybody read the Bible and it was mostly about music. My mother had the most beautiful voice I have ever heard in my life. She could sing anything - classical, jazz, blues, opera. And people came from long distances to that little church she went to - African Methodist Episcopal, the AME church she belonged to - just hear her. ~ Toni Morrison

I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock. ~ Denzel Whitaker

When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with. ~ Eyvind Kang

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song. ~ Brian Harvey

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point? ~ Scott Stapp

#Life does play #music, you just have to #tune #yourself to #listen to it. ~ Dr. Prem Jagyasi

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids. ~ Mystikal

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music. ~ Chris Cornell

If bullshit were music, you'd be a big brass band, ~ A Meredith Walters

Music should be a collective magic and hysteria. ~ Pierre Boulez

If they [animals] were really to get the equal consideration that I believe they should, we wouldn't have commercial animal production in this country. ~ Peter Singer

Takes its colours from the mind, my dear friend;" - he said - "If you discover evil suggestions in my music, the evil, I fear, must be in your own nature. ~ Marie Corelli

Yes, I love that word "absorption" because I think that's my definition of happiness. I think all of us know we are happiest when we forget ourselves, when we forget the time, when we lose ourselves in a beautiful piece of music or a movie or a deep conversation with a friend or an intimate encounter with someone we love. That's our definition of happiness. ~ Pico Iyer

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it. ~ Lady Gaga

I live to inspire, not start the fire. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Music is the eternal language of love for every living species. ~ Debasish Mridha

When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time. ~ Louis Armstrong

I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged. ~ Brenda Strong

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. ~ Damon Albarn

Life meanwhile - real life, with its essential interests of health and sickness, toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions - went on as usual, independently of and apart from political friendship or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte and from all the schemes of reconstruction. ~ Leo Tolstoy

Ben actually had no intention of dancing at the ball. That, as far as he was concerned, was for pussies, a judgement he also gave to art, classical music, black and white films, and any books without serial killers, or explosions, or zombies ~ John Wiltshire

The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way. ~ George Carlin

When I wake up in the morning, I've got a coffee and I'm in my own home studio just chilling ... I make happy music. ~ SonReal

People should be heard, and music should be listened to. ~ Jarod Kintz

You know something, it's best no to have what you need
because then, you start looking for what you need
and make it what you need. ~ KRS-One

Language is texture of images and music. We speak in images and rhythm, by taking help of words ~ Suman Pokhrel

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THERE are so many things which are impossible to explain! Why should certain chords in music make me think of the brown and golden tints of autumn foliage? Why should the Mass of Sainte-Cécile send my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was it in the roar and turmoil of Broadway at six o'clock that flashed before my eyes the picture of a still Breton forest where sunlight filtered through spring foliage, and Sylvia bent, half curiously, half tenderly, over a small, green lizard, murmuring, "To think that this also is a little ward of God? ~ Robert W. Chambers

Hat's just a fact of life. So I've taken music into my life and it's gotten into my blood to the point where even when I am alone, I've got something to hang onto. ~ Chuck Ragan

If I can't play music, what am I gonna do? Music keeps people sane. When you enjoy yourself, most of the time the people who are listening to you enjoy it. ~ Zoot Sims

Be good to people. Be good to every single person you come into contact with. My best friends are great musicians. But more than that, they're great people. ~ Taylor Swift

In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, 'Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.' Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet, and music are incredibly significant in shaping world views and lifestyles of today's America. And Christians are expressing a growing awareness and response to these avenues of influence. Where is God calling you to serve him – media, arts and entertainment, politics, education, church, business, science? ~ David Kinnaman

Most people would fiercely resist the idea that they need any instruction in how to listen to music. Because we can hear, we think we can listen. But just because we can see, we don't assume we can read. Reading ~ Julian Johnson

An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all over white- and somebody will say what exquisite taste. You know in your own mind, in your own soul, that it is not taste at allthat is the want of tastethat is mere evasion. English music is white and evades everything. ~ Edward Elgar