According Quote by Merry Clayton

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

— Prince

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

— Frank Zappa

Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't…

— Dionne Warwick

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

When you're an unsigned artist, you have to do cover tunes, especially in bars.

— Sara Evans

My music comes from my personal background.

— Ludovico Einaudi

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

When I write a story or think of a scene, I always play some song in the background. Sometimes when I don't add a…

— Thiagarajan Kumararaja

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

— Beck

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience…

— John Perry Barlow

When you're in the studio, you have to get the bare-bones, crystallized version of the song you've written. That's the blueprint for everything else.…

— John Popper

I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've…

— Elton John