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Commercial Music Quotes

This collection holds 9 commercial music quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Babyface, Pete Seeger and Joseph Kosinski.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Babyface / Musician

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

Pete Seeger / Singer

Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.

Joseph Kosinski / Film Director

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

Wendy Starland

Pressure is high and jobs are at stake. There is nothing wrong with having commercial music to pitch for those situations, as well as for ad campaigns.

Robyn / Record Producer

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 shallow or without personality.

Bernice Johnson Reagon / Singer

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

John R. Levine / Author

The commercial music world which I had been a part of for so many years lost its sparkle. My focus became the creation of music which would slow down the brainwaves, so inducing a state similar to when we mediate.

Al Walser / Musical Artist

I have always made commercial music. The people who vote for the Grammy nominees are mostly in their 40s and have other jobs or are musicians themselves. They like music that they can relate to - they like commercial music.

Tommy James / Musician

I'm not quite sure. Probably because "Hanky Panky" and "I Think We're Alone Now" had more to do with it than anything else. For some reason, staccato eighth notes on a bass sounded like bubblegum. Basically, groups like the 1910 Fruitgum Co. took my early format and kind of perverted it, and made these mindless pre-fab hits over and over. In the 60s, anybody who was making commercial music, that is music that didn't have a political slant to it, or wasn't taking drugs, was bubblegum. And that term kind of hung on a lot of people back then, and it's unfortunate.

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