Let us sell merchandise to the Spanish and obtain from them gold and silver.
To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially.
Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.
It may almost be held that the hope of commercial gain has done nearly as much for the cause of truth as even the love of truth.
A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.
Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities.
A lot of the commercial world wants to bank in on the cachet that jazz brings.
What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.
