Hilton Als Quotes

Record companies are not necessarily interested in you realizing your artistic dream. The bottom line is that they got to sell records.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make money.

I don't want to sell my soul to Hollywood - to just make run-of-the-mill stuff.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Photography is more about money now but then so are most things.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.

There's always been an ongoing struggle between commerce and art.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

My only loyalty is to what's best for business, not to any set of constituents.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.