Quotes About Artistry

A creative economy is the fuel of magnificence.

Don't worry about the money. Love the process.

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

On everything I do I'm always taking someone's money, whether it's a movie studio or a record label. Somebody's paying for it, and I'm always respectful of that. But I'm never going to compromise.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

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

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

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

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.

I want to be successful. Not just money. Just making a successful record and a successful show... I could feel successful without selling a million records.

I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

You have to make something good. Just because all the hot actors show up and the money is there and the explosives are ready, it doesn't matter.

Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special.'

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

Write for the love of your art. Someplace down the road, the money, the fame, they'll come, but by that time you won't be thinking in terms of money or fame.

People have to be able to make money off their brains and their hearts. Or else we're all going to starve, and it's the machines that'll get good.

Not looking really to do some big giant action movie that's just trying to make a lot of money.

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

I want to be able to write, that's my first love and I don't want to deviate from it even though I probably could have made a lot more money.

I won't make a movie for money ever again.