#commercially

There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#commercially #good #good sign #hear #heard

I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#bill #commercially #concerned #creatively #everyone

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#commercially #early #great #i #made

That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. ↗

— David Selby

#commercially #done #enables #endowment #important

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money. ↗

— Christine McVie

#blues #care #commercially #got #i

As any student of literature knows, the books that last are often not the books that are most popular when they are written. Both 'Moby Dick' and 'The Great Gatsby' were complete failures, critically and commercially, when they first appeared. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#appeared #books #both #commercially #complete

When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money! ↗

— Jonathan Demme

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While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility. ↗

— Lee De Forest

#feasible #financially #impossibility #may #technically

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#also #am #aware #business #commercially