Commercial Music Quotes

• The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Funny, Music, Joy

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• 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

  Mean, People, Personality

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

  Babyface

  Mind, Popular Music

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• I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

  Al Walser

  Jobs, People, Musician

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• 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

  Years, Focus, World

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• I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.

  Philip Glass

  Beach, Writing, Thinking

  Source: thomasmoore.info

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

  Pete Seeger

  People, Interesting, Nightclubs

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Video, World

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Music, Song, Thinking

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Political

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• Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.

  Wendy Starland

  Jobs, Campaigns, Pressure

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Rights, Movement

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• 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

  Music, Art, Form

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