Quotes About Jingles

#1. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#3. Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.

Martha Beck

#4. Some men are like a church-organ
you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box
they have four or five thin jingles.

Austin O'Malley

#5. I decorated this man like decorating a Christmas tree. His voice spoke jingles of love and his eyes shone like fake lights every time we made love.

Elise Icten

#6. Pride is the chalice into which all human sins are poured: it glitters and jingles and its arabesque lures your gaze, while your lips involuntarily touch the seductive beverage.

Vladimir Odoevsky

#7. I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved commercials, I've loved all the jingles, I loved all the stuff.

Jon Hamm

#8. The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

David Ogilvy

#9. A magazine to have style, must need and understand and invest in what jingles - not jiggles - in designer jeans.

Frances Lear

#10. There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing.

Julianne Moore

#11. Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?

David Ogilvy

#12. In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.

Walter Brueggemann

#13. On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising to a dramatic peak for the top-selling song of the week.

Richard Corliss

#14. I'm still kind of a hapless character in my everyday life. But when it comes to the writing, my influences are very old influences. I love American music of absolutely all stripes, including show tunes, advertising jingles, theme tunes from quiz shows, all kinds of American music.

Nick Lowe

#15. I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony.

Roger Daltrey

#16. I was a good sight reader and I could sing two or three of these jingles a day. An orchestra would come in for half an hour, and then the singers would come in and knock 'em out, and go on to the next one. I was the voice of Budweiser and Almond Joy.

Valerie Simpson

#17. My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.

Reeve Carney

#18. Your good friends can write a book on you; but Your best friends can create an embarrassing full fledged 3 hours movie on you, with silliest jingles and animation made ever.

Vikrmn

#19. I can write jingles all day long but the best sensation is your own heart's song!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#20. The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load, but only to jingle while the horses draw.

Henry Ward Beecher

#21. I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Burt Lancaster

#22. ...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Veronica Roth

#23. I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

Stephen King

#24. Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.

Frank Iero

#25. If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.

Mallory Jansen

#26. Three words for those who want to put the Christ back in Christmas: Jingle Bell Rock.

Christopher Hitchens

#27. The difference between bitter and better is I.

Jennifer Rothschild

#28. Change does not fail to occur because of insincerity. The heart patient is not insincere about his wish to keep living, even as he reaches for another cigarette. Change fails to occur because we mean both things. It fails to occur because we are a living contradiction.

Robert Kegan

#29. Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone's connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing's broken?

Trenton Lee Stewart

#30. The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

Wayne Rooney

#31. Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion

Kin Hubbard

#32. My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix ...

Joe