Chet Atkins Quotes

Give the public what it wants.

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.

Of course, you have to think of the audience. You cannot make an obtuse film that only appeals to a small niche section of the audience.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

I think TV is all about not turning off the public, it's about not being too sexy, not being too much of anything really.

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

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

The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

The gallery is generating work for the masses.

You've got to change with the public's taste.

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

The general consumption of any commodity by the vulgar lessens, on the contrary, in many minds, the pleasure it would otherwise give. It brings down the individual, in this particular, to a level with the lowest

It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.

If you've got a shot at having some 30 million people give you thumbs up or thumbs down every week, you take it.

One has to create music with mass appeal and not something which is niche. With niche music, you will only go a small distance.