#dio

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#magazines #music #musicianship #nothing #played

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#five #get #idiot #including #larger

Digital television, satellite radio, videogames, iPods - so much media. Do books even matter anymore? ↗

— Mo Rocca

#books #digital #even #matter #media

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#biggest #clever #cleverest #idiots #makes

Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#beyond #dismiss #mediocre #minds #own

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio. ↗

— Kid Rock

#first #i #inspire #know #making

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#around #because #buck #changing #could

If you do a film with a studio, agents step in, they start saying, 'My actor has to get this amount of money', and it becomes about deals. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#actor #agents #amount #becomes #deals

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds. ↗

— Robert Rodriguez

#finance #funds #get #outside #studios

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#everything #familiar #marketing #now #reaching