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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

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

— Anonymous

We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is…

— Jerry Garcia

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

— Colin Meloy

The upside to doing commercials is you have to work in a lot of different genres and make stuff that you never thought you'd…

— St. Lucia

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

— Trace Adkins

The hardest thing about getting publicity is doing it on a budget... you can hire people to market you but it's hard in this…

— MC Lars

This is how people are going to listen to music now - streaming. So diversify as a band. It doesn't mean selling your songs…

— Winston Marshall

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

— Marian McPartland

I think the concept of commercials, for example, I have had offers to do songs in different commercials, and it is not what I…

— Chris Cornell

In one way, I'm sympathetic to the institutional reluctance to face the music. I'd give a lot to mark my weight to 'model' rather…

— Warren Buffett

I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.

— Jack White