Knows Quote by Rick Springfield

I didn't come into the music business to make money. I came into it to be a success. Of course, if you're successful, you'll…

— Gilbert O'Sullivan

I'm not in it for the money. I like music. I love to write music. I can't imagine myself not playing or singing or…

— Paul Simon

If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also…

— Chris Cornell

I've never been in this business to make money. I've always been in it to make good music.

— Peter Frampton

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about…

— Hozier

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I…

— Jason Aldean

As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I kind of accidentally fell…

— Hooman Majd

A lot of musicians talk about how they were into music from the start; they always wanted to be musicians. It wasn't like that…

— Mitski

A lot of musicians don't learn the business. You just have to be well-rounded in both areas. You have to understand publishing. You have…

— Bradley Joseph

I never really made much money playing music. It's because I've never really worked with a producer who could make my music sound, I…

— Mark Linkous

It's all about the music, and I work as hard as I do strictly because of the music. It's not a money thing; it's…

— Mike Portnoy

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