Fiona Shaw Quotes

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

The biggest affront to any audience is if you feel like someone took something you love and is selling it out.

Ours is not so much an age of vulgarity as of vulgarization; everything is tampered with or touched up, or adulterated or watered down, in an effort to make it palatable, in an effort to make it pay.

The sham engineers of the music industry, who steer the wheels of public opinion, are driving the good features of calypso into the ground. I shudder to think what these greedy men will eventually do to this true art form.

The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

There are a lot of bands using self-abuse as a marketing gimmick.

The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

These deluded creatures [Christians], you see, have persuaded themselves that they are immortal and will live forever, which explains the contempt of death and willing self-sacrifice so common among them. It was impressed on them too by their lawgiver that from the moment they are converted, deny the gods of Greece, worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws, they are all brothers. They take his instructions completely on faith, with the result that they despise all worldly goods and hold them in common ownership. So any adroit, unscrupulous fellow, who knows the world, has only to get among these simple souls and his fortune is quickly made; he plays with them

I think a lot of things are shoved in our face, politically and historically, for money, and that's the motive.

The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.

The idea of going to New York for five days and kinda being paraded around by the NFL as they make money off your every step, and the whole purpose is just for publicity for me to stand there in a suit and go, 'Look at me everybody!'... That sounds horrible.

We're just going to be ourselves, and we're just going to cross our fingers and hope that people like it. Because that's all you can do.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

Hollywood seduces a person who's used to making theater, art, and having success on their own terms and then tries to squish them into a box and, eventually, throws the box out.

I try to not to overanalyze, not to watch myself too much, but to be present in life and in my art. I'm so glad it comes off in that way.

The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.

As soon as I stopped trying to control everything that came out of my mouth and every picture that came out, that's when I became so much happier.

It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

The greatest enemy of ordinary daily goodness and joy is not imperfection, but the demand for some supposed perfection or order.