Royalties Quotes

“Fuck your royalties and die.”

— Robin Benway

Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

— Walter Isaacson

I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

— Daisy Ashford

“Nothing is a waste of time if you get paid for it.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“The real piracy wasn’t downloads. It was contracts.”

— Jason Colapietro

You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.

— Jeff Foxworthy

“Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business,”

— Jessica Livingston

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

— Ba Jin

Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

— Chris Patten

Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

— Elliott Carter

My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.

— Bushwick Bill

Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

— Clarence Darrow

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

— Sydney Carter

Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since…

— Ruth Glick

People think I got rich out of 'Swan ,but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady'…

— Matthew Bourne

Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands…

— Bernie Sanders

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for…

— Prince

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties…

— Tones and I

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I…

— Philip Pullman

“Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it’s actually lucrative for me. We call…

— Sherman Alexie

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I…

— Jo Stafford

Music copyright and licensing laws haven't kept up with technology or the times. The Music Modernization Act fixes that with a comprehensive…

— Cindy Hyde-Smith

In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual…

— Arundhati Roy

Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your…

— Frank Zappa

Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money,…

— Tony Hawk

Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I…

— L.C. Cooke

I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes…

— Pharoah Sanders

I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“generally, when you do something for an audience, they repay you. The Grateful Dead made plenty of money. Tom Peters makes many…

— Mitch Joel

“Book authors are in high demand for speaking engagements and appearances; they are the new ‘celebrity’ and celebrities gain access. Authors not…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still…

— Afrika Bambaataa

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

— Leonard Cohen

One of California's largest exports for royalties is creative content.

— Ted Lieu

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

— Paul McCartney

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

— Merry Clayton

The royalties from downloading are bad enough but the royalties from streaming are non-existent.

— Paul Young

I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

— Chuck Mosley

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

— Christo

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

— Benny Hinn

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

— Ian Brown