Affluent Quote by Robert Emerson Coleman

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

— Langston Hughes

Economic background should not be a reason for not learning music!

— Shankar Mahadevan

Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a…

— Donald Trump

If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been…

— Bernie Sanders

What is the source of power of musicians who are financially browbeaten, most of whom work for minimum wage or less? Musicians who cannot…

— Itay Talgam

The richest people in the world aren't particularly smart or happy. And the happiest people in the world aren't particularly smart or rich.… That…

— Frank Zappa

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

— David Byrne

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a…

— David Byrne

Never too poor. You don't have to be a millionaire to pick up an instrument.

— Anonymous

But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with…

— Sidney Lanier

Way back in the old days, say in Europe of the Middle Ages, you had an aristocracy, and they could afford to pay for…

— Pete Seeger

Musicians more than most people are in the moment. That's the dual nature of that job.

— Gail Zappa