Quotes for All
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them – the cheapskates! I told them I’d never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand. Eric Idle
I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn’t really love the song. Eric Clapton
I played some shows, but I’m disappointed it didn’t do better. I wish all my shows sold out, I wish I had sold more copies, I wish that a song was picked up to be in a TV show – whatever these little benchmarks are. You always want something more. Eleanor Friedberger
Paper or razor blade, never give up And just remember just to hold out more A couple years ago I couldn’t just control that thought You’d find me buskin’ on the street When it was cold outdoors And now I’m sweating on the stage With the sold out tours Writing love songs for the sake … Read more
What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven’t sold out to the establishment powers that tell us what to think, what to wear, how to behave, what to believe in and what goes beyond the line of rational and irrational thought. Frederick Lenz
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I’ve done that nobody can ever say I sold out. David Allan Coe
These wrestlers aren’t organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There’s a lot of drama there. Darren Aronofsky
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out – and it’s been sold out ever since. Darrell Royal
I don’t believe there are any more blockbusters films. Back in the day with music, people would wait up all night for the music store to open to get their favorite CD, and if it were sold out they would come back again. Darius McCrary
What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the ’60s. It’s just an amazing thing. I can’t explain it, but I hope it never stops. Chubby Checker