Making money Quote by Ryan Tedder

I really love being an artist, but I make my money from songwriting.

— MNEK

As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question…

— Rodney Crowell

I was always trying to write standards, songs that anybody can sing. I figured that's where the money was.

— Leon Russell

I'm a pretty successful songwriter and known in some circles, but I didn't think the story of my career was of any real entertainment…

— Rodney Crowell

I was a 10 million-plus selling artist

— Toni Braxton

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 pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

— Rick Ross

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I…

— Anonymous

I didn't even know the industry of songwriting existed. I thought everybody sang songs and they were only singing the songs that they wrote.…

— PJ Harvey

I knew that collaborating on songwriting would be difficult for a lot of people, because I was known very much, for my independence and…

— Liz Phair

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

— J. J. Cale

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

— Gold Panda