Selling Out Quotes

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Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

The irony about selling out is that they only call you a sell-out when your stuff finally sells - I've had products bearing my name since I was 14, but nobody was buying them then.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

I admire Mark Zuckerberg... for not selling out, for wanting to make a company. I admire that a lot.

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

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

All the selling out talk is really overrated, the funny thing is it hardly ever comes from bands, it comes from some kid who thinks they're so punk because they have a purple mohawk

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

I want to thank Gus Van Sant for selling out so that I could use his editor Curtis Clayton, who did a great job.

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

I tell myself I use art to promote dissent, but maybe I am just using dissent to promote my art. I plead not guilty to selling out. But I plead it from a bigger house than I used to live in.

It's not selling out, it is called making lots of money.

You should consider an employment change before you consider selling out.

To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

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.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

I feel like so many people get into that place where creating for someone else is selling out and it is so not about that. It is a stupid, kind of pretentious way of thinking.

I have no trouble selling out—I’m a benevolent hack, in a certain way—but I want to pander for something I believe in.

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.

This is about black people selling out other black people.

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.

I don't plan on selling out. I mean, it's nice to get a dinner reservation ahead of other people, but when it comes down to it, the most important thing to me is the actual work.

People don't understand what term "selling out" means. To me selling out means if I were to stop doing this and go work for McDonald's then I would sell out.

I'm not selling out, denying who I am or where I've come from, not at all. I acknowledge that.

While [Bob] Dylan's folk fans thought he was selling out [in 1965-67], actually Dylan was lodging a stronger, deeper critique of American hypocrisy.

I'm not in any way selling out by having a record that's good enough for radio.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out. And I can sleep at night because I'm at peace with it.

There is a lot of anxiety in India about writers selling out to foreign audiences, but I’m neither flattering the Indian audience nor the American audience. I’m uneasily somewhere in the middle.

It’s hard being pissed with a nice car and a good job. Fed up on filet medallions and swimming in chilled martinis. We know what we think and our life here is our reward for thinking it.

Politics knows no currency.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life., 8 September 1935)

Once people said: Give me liberty or give me death. Now they say: Make me a slave, just pay me enough.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or