Art Quote by Herbert Marcuse

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the…

— Herbert Marcuse

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

— Elvis Costello

“The commercial media … help citizens feel as if they are successful and have met these aspirations, even if they have not. They tend…

— Chris Hedges

What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things…

— Ann Bridge

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry.

— Steve Stoute

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of…

— Alicia Keys

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something…

— Robyn

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing the message…

— Ellen Willis

I remember when the big shift happened in 1996-97, when suddenly it dawned on the music community: 'We should license our music to commercials…

— DJ Shadow

We both [with Jo Andres] think that it is really important to our culture that we support all kinds of music, all kinds of…

— Steve Buscemi

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

— Christopher Lasch

Advertising has always been the 'head boy' of the communications industry, but not anymore. Now the rest - creative, digital, and media - is…

— Richard Edelman