Gavin Rossdale Quotes

Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.

I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

I love a big book, but it's what most people like which makes commerce sing.

I think 'cool' is overrated.

Being mainstream is fun.

Pop music - deriving from the word 'popular' - for me, it's just great to be a part of music that reaches a large amount of people and not just a small amount of people.

Some people think big audiences are crass and that, say, a comedy that appeals to a wide audience is pandering. Other people would argue that you could say that about Moliere.

Things meant to appeal to the masses usually end up appealing to no one.

At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby. It is humility with a comb-over. It is Nielsen ratings and Barnum's axiom and the real bottom line. It is big, big business.

What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is 'all it does' - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it.

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

Media, the plural of mediocrity.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.