Before Quote by Ian Brown

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

— Jo Stafford

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of…

— Little Richard

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

I don't think my story is an unusual story for a lot of music performers. But I think that since 1982, worldwide, I have…

— Toni Basil

I would have paid out royalties if we were still working together, carrying on Bob's tradition and generating income, but that was not happening.…

— Rita Marley

With the Stone Roses, I always thought we'd be successful because we had some great songs.

— Ian Brown

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

— L.C. Cooke

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

— Tones and I

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

— Justin Timberlake

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

— Ian Brown

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

— Ryan Tedder

I didn't really buy LPs or go to concerts.

— Philip Seymour Hoffman