Mika Quotes

The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.

I'm only a product like a cake of soap, to be sold as well as possible.

I don't believe you can buy or sell 'cool.'

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

Everything in our world is branded.

Commercialism that has absolutely no relationship to quality whatsoever, only quantitative assessment of a thing.

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.

Philosophically, I don't like doing commercials.

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

I worry a lot about people using games just for marketing, to get people to buy more stuff, which I think would be the worst possible use.

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.

You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.

I have to admit I've always had quite a complex relationship with modeling and with the idea of advertising: not always knowing what I'm advertising and selling.

I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

Marketing is not a nice word, but the world is about marketing now.

Marketing is the obverse of programming.

I had to write 1500 words on advertising and marketing at the weekend for my business management course, and you can't think about rugby while you are doing that!

As members of a social species endowed with large brains, we are natural-born marketers. Capitalism, the economic system that has elevated innumerable people out of abject poverty and misery, is founded on marketing. Everything that defines your daily existence has the indelible marks of marketing on it.

You see yourself as a good product that sits on a shelf and sells well, and people make a lot of money out of you.

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

I saw with open eyes, Singing birds sweet, Sold in the shops, For the people to eat, Sold in the shops of, Stupidity Street.

I think one of the problems with the capitalist mainstream is this: no matter what you create to respond or resist it they will buy it.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.