Quotes About Value

The world thinks that music is a commercial commodity. I'm glad that is not my code.

Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent

The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

The worth of my music will never be guessed or its value to mankind felt until the approach to it is consciously undertaken as a pilgrimage to sorrows.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is how do we make people pay for music? What if we started asking, how do we let people pay for music?

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didnt.

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

For many artists fame complements the value of creative self-expression. Ludwig van Beethoven loved composing music, but he probably would have enjoyed it less if no one ever listened to the product.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

you dont know what you got till its gone

We simply can't feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

What makes human life - which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

The crux of the matter, is that people don't understand the true nature of money. It is meant to circulate, not be wrapped up in a stocking