Cultural Consumption Quotes

I think the smart people will get even smarter, and the dumb people will get even dumber. But I think they all will enjoy A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila, no matter how you slice it. You know, we keep eating it up. Some of the most intelligent people I know cannot get enough of it. That's a dangerous thing.

Television is the first truly democratic culture—the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Conservative voters will put up with a lot of things in the culture that disagree with their views. They have proven time and again they will roll their eyes at actors and musicians saying negative things about the presidents and candidates they vote for and still consume their product.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.

Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time.

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

I've always been pretty ravenous about pop culture, highbrow and lowbrow.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

The mainstream consumed our culture.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

Our points of reference in America aren't steeped in literature; they're steeped in that five minutes between commercials.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

Even though many Indians can read or speak English, for most, it is not their first language. At the office, we speak in English, but we consume our culture in our own language.

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.

I love to read the way people love to watch television.

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.