David Slade Quotes

Trust me: I entertain Joe Six-Pack 30 weekends a year. I don't really think that I'm an elitist.

I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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

Personally, in real life, I'm a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take something which is a minority interest and make it accessible without dumbing it down. I'm such an enthusiast for peculiar things, things that are perhaps a bit avant-garde, and try and involve everyone.

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

I feel about me like I'm one of the working people, just like you, and everybody else. I don't fit the part of a celebrity.

There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.

I write to the vulgar more than the learned.

I'm mainstream.

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

The broadcast networks - they are literally broad. They try to appeal to everyone. They try to reach all of America, all the time. Increasingly, they fail to do that, but they try.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

I hope what people see in me is that I'm a normal guy, and that people who look as I do can do normal things.

The average commercial radio listener in America is not looking for lofty, intellectual subjects. This isn't brain surgery. It's about striking the passion of the people.

I want to put out music that everyday people can relate to.

I am not recommending "popular" literature which aims at the lowest.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

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.

Just 'cause something's popular, it can still be good. In fact, if more people are buying it, then you must be doing something right. People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

I'm just me. Just Kyle from Sheffield. That's all I see myself as.

The people's love of pumpkin spice and snobbish elites' derision of it suggest a subtle political reality: the pumpkin spice latte is America's most conservative drink.

I don't see myself as anything special. I'm just Johnny Gargano. I always have been, no matter what I'm about to do or where I am.