How Quote by R. Kelly

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

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make…

— Patrick Wolf

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way…

— Helen Reddy

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.

— Anita Baker

I've made money, and I've been ripped off. I've had creative freedom, and I've been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva…

— David Byrne

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

— Vangelis

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've written 90 percent of the songs in my career, on all my albums.

— Toby Keith

The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write…

— Rick DeJesus

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines.

— Charlemagne Palestine

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

— Leo Kottke

I'm a performer. That's what I do. That and making money - it's the passion and the care factor for the people that support…

— Schoolboy Q