Top Mark Hosler Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Mark Hosler Biography

Mark Howard Hosler is an American musician who is a founding member of the sound art collective Negativland.

Read about Mark Hosler in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Mark Hosler Quotes

I'm a really skinny guy, I'm real tall, and I have a very high metabolism, so if I drink anything with caffeine in it, it makes me have an anxiety attack. So I can't do coffee, or cola, or coffee ice cream, or any of those things. They make me feel like I'm going berserk.

Real, Coffee, Ice Cream, Berserk, Like

Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store. . . Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm. . . Nike. "

Nike, Real, Thing, Thinking, Way

For me, I don't want to live in a world where I am afraid of making the kind of art I want to make. The idea that I should be afraid of publicly ridiculing and mocking and chopping up and rearranging a giant corporation that intrudes on my life whether I want it to or not every day. . . The idea that I have to be afraid to do that is absurd to me.

Art, Ideas, Giants, Ridiculing, Absurd, Life

What has happened now in mass media and advertising is not only that they've adopted the style and the look of fringe culture; that has been happening for a long time. What they've now done is gone a step further: They've now taken the very idea that there is any dissent at all - it doesn't even matter what form it takes - and made it part of how they're going to sell something.

Happened, Ideas, Matter, Media, Step, Taken

The effect of the advertising way of thinking on our brains, and how we live on our planet, is very disturbing. It's not a very good thing, and it's not the kind of thing to just make into kind of a "ha-ha. "

Brain, Brains, Make, Thinking, Way

Mohammed Rafi

Mohammed Rafi

MC Hammer

MC Hammer

Aaron Dontez Yates

Aaron Dontez Yates

Marcus Lemonis

Marcus Lemonis

James Cash Penney

James Cash Penney

Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

Ettore Sottsass

Ettore Sottsass

Kerry Greenwood

Kerry Greenwood

TyDi

TyDi

Andrew Doyle

Andrew Doyle

Matt Selman

Matt Selman

Madeline Carroll

Madeline Carroll