Live Quote by Prince

I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or…

— Steve Albini

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 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

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 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

Putting out compilation records, buying the right to music is incredibly complicated. You have to find the writer of the song and the publisher…

— John Waters

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

I make a lot of money off featuring, doing songs with up-and-coming artists. I can charge someone $10,000 to $15,000 to do one song.

— Rich the Kid

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

We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

— Alan Sparhawk

I've always seen myself as a working musician but now there's no money in records for the artist at all, it's all in live…

— Paul Young

Recorded music has always been in a sense promotion for live performance, and some artists have discovered that giving it away is as effective…

— Todd Rundgren