#commercial

I've always been a bit of a Jekyll and Hyde. I always feel that you should keep singles as commercial as possible so that the people can walk down the road and whistle a song. But on the other hand on albums I think you can afford to show people what you can do. ↗

— Roy Wood

#albums #always #been #bit #commercial

I don't make a division between an art film and commercial art. ↗

— Joe Wright

#between #commercial #division #film #i

In a way, what Tarantino has done with the French New Wave and with David Lynch is what Pat Boone did with rhythm and blues: He's found (ingeniously) a way to take what is ragged and distinctive and menacing about their work and homogenize it, churn it until it's smooth and cool and hygienic enough for mass consumption. Reservoir Dogs, for example, with its comically banal lunch chatter, creepily otiose code names, and intrusive soundtrack of campy pop from decades past, is a Lynch movie made commercial, i.e., fast, linear, and with what was idiosyncratically surreal now made fashionably (i.e., "hiply") surreal [...] D. Lynch is an exponentially better filmmaker than Q. Tarantino. For, unlike Tarantino, D. Lynch knows that an act of violence in an American film has, through repetition and desensitization, lost the ability to refer to anything but itself. A better way to put what I just tried to say: Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#david-foster-wallace #david-lynch #film #muzak #quentin-tarantino

But I never had that commercial opportunity to be played on the radio, so how could I be popular? ↗

— Luther Allison

#could #had #how #i #never

Chicago is the product of modern capitalism, and, like other great commercial centers, is unfit for human habitation. ↗

— Eugene V. Debs

#centers #chicago #commercial #great #habitation

I still make more money as I do as an actor than director, however I don't want to be a commercial director. ↗

— Charles S. Dutton

#commercial #director #however #i #i do

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#bored #commercial #commercial success #forgotten #incredible

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed. ↗

— Jack Gould

#commercials #less #likely #more #sex

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday. ↗

— Richard Lester

#beginning #came #commercial #doing #easy

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks. ↗

— Michael E. Mann

#commercial #flu #stocks