Quotes About Music

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

Cause POP POP POP it goes my rubber band. So STOP STOP STOP sniffin that contraband.

The records made money, but I didn't get none.

I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

The greatest music is made for love, not for money.

People should hear the pure blues - the # blues we used to have when we had no money.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

I wouldn't think a blues album would be that commercially successful, but I don't really care. I'd do it for the love of blues, not for the money. I've got plenty of money.

I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

Even if I don't have the money to take vocal lessons, I'll practice in the house by myself singing out loud.

So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.

We were all crazy about music and almost all the money we had, we spent for equipment.

Let us be clear: I take ten times more money for a concert than for an opera performance.

Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.