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

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar; I would love to get nominated again. — Juicy J

The greatest music is made for love, not for money. — Greg Lake

I think rap music has made more money on dance music than dance music has made on dance music. Just a thought. — Kaskade

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music. — Ice Cube

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good. — Grieves

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

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

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music. — Prince Royce

Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop. — Mary Steenburgen

There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money! — Duke Ellington

I don't want anyone to fail, so if you can make money off music even though you can't sing or dance, that's genius. — Prince

Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs — Daniel Levitin

Trust in the music business is a hard thing to earn and keep. — Jonathan Burkett

There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money. — Joe Goddard

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell — Gustav Holst

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music. — Macklemore

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business. — Henry Mancini

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

I got into music via the competitions; the first time I ever performed was in a kind of rap battle, competing for money. — Doc Brown

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound! — Jane Siberry

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. — Gucci Mane

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

If there were a race among all artists to the human heart, my money would be on music to win. It knows a shortcut. — Marie-Helene Bertino

This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music. — Justin Timberlake

I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful. — Patrick Wolf

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous. — Ice-T

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music. — Christofer Drew

Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass? — Michael Torke

The only film I ever made for money was something called 'Music From Another Room', which I really didn't like. — Jude Law

I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money. — Nat King Cole

I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music. — Gregg Allman

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money. — Jens Lekman

I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again. — Dolly Parton

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music. — James Marsters

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment; producers don't want to spend money on orchestra. — Sivamani

Sure, it's money runs the world," Doone agreed, seated there. "But it is music that holds down the friction. — Ray Bradbury

Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music. — Virgil Thomson

Only sick music makes money today. — Friedrich Nietzsche

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that. — Patrick Carney

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

We're all made the same but then born to change. Which then don't make us the same. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician. — Pete Fountain

People ask you all the time, 'Why do you do this? Why don't you quit, man, take your money and go home?' I just do it because I love making music. — Ronnie Dunn

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. — Ian Anderson

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else. — Howlin' Wolf

When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music. — Paul Oakenfold

I mean, the way I see it is, every penny I've ever made through music is free money. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

I can deal with all the pangs of having to find money in 20 different places because you don't really reap the whirlwind with this cutting-edge music. — Doseone

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome. — Noel Gallagher

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it! — Michel Gondry

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. — Charles Bukowski

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing. — Gold Panda

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. — River Phoenix

Dream-start with dream. Start tonight-become who you want-dream big!" He became animated at this point, "No money needed for dreams. Dreams are free. — Brian Joyce

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving. — Tom Jones

Musicians talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art — Jean Sibelius

No matter how much money he'd been offered or how many glittering stars had requested duets, he hadn't sung for them.
But he'd sung for me. — Karen Healey

Its a matter of time that the money I make become a financial cake that I could eat everyday. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

I play sad bastard music. For the money. — J. Tillman

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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

I never made any money from my music. I don't make that much; I make it flip-flopping between five and ten different disciplines. — Charlemagne Palestine

It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music. — Barry Gibb

We don't do it for the money ... we do it for the music. — Freddie Mercury

There's much more money being brought into the advertising and communications business than in the music industry. — Steve Stoute

Because I can go to Vegas and make the money I do, I'm able to spend a lot more time producing music that I love. — Diplo

I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music. — Zach Braff

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money. — Steve Brown

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school. — Flea

I've never written one note or word of music simply because I think it will make money. — Brian Wilson

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists — Tim Brookes

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. — Iris Dement

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone. — Duke Ellington

Even in junior high, I always knew I had a talent for music and I knew I could make money that way. — Bob Seger

I give money for church organs in the hope the organ music will distract the congregation's attention from the rest of the service. — Andrew Carnegie

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry. — DJ Jazzy Jeff

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money. — Mick Jagger

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio. — Swizz Beatz

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire. — Michael Kiwanuka

He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things. — Donald Glover

The mention of money did intrigue him, since he did prefer wine, women, and song to beer, whores, and accordion music. — Pip Ballantine