80s Quote by Steve Earle

I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist, just by selling 100,000 records. I don't sell millions of records, and I…

— Steve Earle

We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist…

— Tony Bennett

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you…

— Lady Gaga

I am personally happy for artists to make as much money as they can while they can to carry them through the times when…

— Michael Craig-Martin

As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can't really hold in your hand. I work not for money but…

— Kali Uchis

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

— Linus Torvalds

The point has always been to make music, it's not like I've always been running a giant money making scheme.

— Girl Talk

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

— Tori Amos

I don't make music to make money. I make music because that's what I like to do. You would think, "Yeah, of course, that's…

— Del tha Funkee Homosapien

If you only have the mind of, "We have to sell this music and I have to make money on this music," then it's…

— Anoop Desai

I was always bad with money, and I think most artistes are like that. They don't use both sides of the brain.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

I don't wait on the music industry to qualify me or give me my paycheck. I go about my business as an artist and…

— Perry Farrell