Max Joseph Quotes

Writers are always selling somebody out.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?

I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.

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.

Sometimes when things you love get really commercial, you end up feeling betrayed by it.

There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.

Obviously, I would like to play to bigger audiences and have a bit more success, but not if I have to commercialize.

In trying to cross over to the mainstream, some people stopped writing what they witnessed.

I really don't believe in the word 'selling out.'

No one can establish what selling out is.

People tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is one last thing to remember. Writers are always selling somebody out.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

When the business starts shaping the art, or the delivery of the art, then it's not right.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.

You want the story to end when it's supposed to and not be squeezed for somebody's financial gain.

The whole 'sell out' word to me is such a tired, tired word.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.