Cost Quote by Kenneth Anger

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

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if…

— Henry Rollins

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 have so many records put away now, it was just a matter of picking 13 songs and selling it. It was all these…

— Akon

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

We as a music ­community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual ­property, being paid fairly for the work that we do.

— Neil Portnow

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of…

— Clive Davis

For me, as someone growing up in a working-class suburb in Stockholm, I couldn't afford all the music. So back in '98, '99, I…

— Daniel Ek

What do you know about music? You're not a lawyer.

— John Lurie

There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

— Prince

I did a lot of songs that I sold, but then they never came out and I never got paid for it. You learn…

— Ester Dean

In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

— Terry Bozzio