It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a…

The Internet will not become a money machine until the banking industry figures out how to transfer money for free so you can charge…

— Erik Naggum

Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.

— Fred W. Friendly

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

— William S. Burroughs

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

— Marilyn Monroe

Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.

— John Stuart Mill

What people who don't create don't understand, is that once you take money from the machine, the machine [movie industry] owns you.

— Tucker Max

Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The…

— Donald Sultan

I'm against government giving money to artists, but I'm not against artists taking money. Just like I don't have a moral problem with people…

— Chester Brown

“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you…

— Jerry Stahl

I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it.…

— Calvin Harris

Dave Matthews, Tim McGraw, U2, The Rolling Stones - there are a lot of artists selling out stadiums around the world that we work…

— Michael Rapino

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist…

— Tony Bennett

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

— Margaret Mitchell