Commercial Focus Quotes

I'm no longer an artist, I'm a business partner.

I'm a business person.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.

The studios are very much business. Maybe it was always that way. It is really commercial now. Judgments are made and directions are given to make the cash register ring.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

I think the record industry has gotten to be more about labels wondering what the new single is rather than labels nurturing artists. It's gotten away from making a full album of music that someone would want to listen to all the way through.

I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.

Telco is totally committed to commercial vehicles, where it is bound to remain a major player. What may well happen in the future is we may split the company into two business units.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.

In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.

I'm a commercial person, not an academic.

The artist is the lowest form of life on the rung of the ladder. The publishers are usually businessmen who deal with businessmen. They deal with promotional people. They deal with financial people. They deal with accountants. They deal with people who work on higher levels. They deal with tax people, but have absolutely no interest in artists, in individual artists, especially very young artists.

You of the West are practical in business, practical in great inventions, but we of the East are practical in religion. You make commerce your business; we make religion our business.

I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.

With a focus on records and making money, you tend to miss a good story.

I used to do theater in L.A., but it got to the point where everything was really showcase-y.

I'm not interested in the ego trip of creating or not creating. I'm interested in selling a magazine. Rock-bottom, I sell magazines. I'm a thorough professional who does his job.

I was getting in trouble at school. I wasn't happy. The school was very much a school that created people for commerce and it wasn't an arty school.

Acting's more of a business for me now.