Quotes About Wealth

I am happy to make money. I want to make more money, make more music, eat Big Macs and drink Budweisers.

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Money had never been the main thing for me. It's the legacy that was important.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

I never had the feeling I ever had to make a dime doing anything.

I'm uncomfortable with being famous. I hate it. But I love making music. I love getting paid to do it, and I love getting on my boat after I get paid to do it.

I didn't get into music to become famous and I didn't get into music to become rich either - I got into because I liked it.

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Music as a whole, in its overwhelming wealth and endlessness, is inaccessible unless we free ourselves from the limitations of our own restricted training.

Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly, and use it to get myself wealthy.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more.

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

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

The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty.

Dark green is my favorite color. It's the color of nature and the color of money and the color of moss!

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.