Quotes About Royalties

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church materials that were created on our own personal time.

Stocks •?Bonds •?Income-generating real estate •?Notes (IOUs) •?Royalties from intellectual property such as music, scripts, and patents •?Anything else that has value, produces income or appreciates, and has a ready market

There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.

ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC websites for more information about rates and services.)

But if he and Linda composed together, they stood to earn a higher share, since unlike Paul, Linda was not under contract to Northern Songs and could route her part in the collaboration through another publisher—specifically, McCartney Music, Inc., the publishing arm of the newly formed McCartney Productions Ltd.

Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

Prior to 2009, when publishers scoffed at the ebook market, they offered writers contracts which gave us half of the money they made off ebook sales.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

Don't sign your publishing away.

10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you're writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.

But the highlight of The Third Man was the haunting zither theme, which the film had propelled to worldwide attention. Anton Karas (discovered by film director Carol Reed playing in a Vienna bistro) wrote it, played it, and grew rich on its royalties.

I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques.

Less than 3% of newly published authors make enough in royalties and advances to be happy to live on.)

Every time they ban the book, it becomes national headlines. I sell more books, so it's actually lucrative for me. We call Banned Books Week in my house "Big-Assed Royalties Week.

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

The author writes a play, then is through with it, aside from collecting royalties. Four weeks of rehearsing and the director's work is done. Theirs are creative jobs. But how would the author feel if he had to write the same play over each night for a year? Or the director to restage it before each performance? They'd be as balmy as Nijinsky in a week. Even the ushers traffic with different people every night. But the actress? She's a caged parrot.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

If you had told me in 1968 that 20 years later I'd still be receiving wonderful royalty checks for those three years, I wouldn't have believed you.

I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

My contract with Rap-A-Lot was never-ending and had me working for everything against royalties.

I would have paid out royalties if we were still working together, carrying on Bob's tradition and generating income, but that was not happening. The Wailers didn't write the songs and they had been paid for their work in the studio.