Aimee Mann Quotes

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

They're always saying I'm a capitalistic pig. I suppose I am. But... it's good for my drumming.

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

I would rather fall flat on my face than try to just make a quick dollar by making music that fits into the radio format right now. It does nothing for me.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

The biggest thing I've found since I left the game - and I'm glad I chose to leave rather than being sacked - is that so many people are in football for the wrong reasons. Not because they love the game, but because they smell 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.

I really came out to L.A. to take the money and run.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I do them all for the money, I really do.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.

Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

Greed has been severely underestimated and denigrated—unfairly so in my opinion. … there's nothing wrong with avarice as a motive as long as it doesn't lead to dishonest … conduct.

As soon as any art is pursued with a view of money, then farewell, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, all hope of genuine good work.

For Trump, it's always about Trump and how he makes more money.

The common class of mankind are actuated by no nobler principle than that of self-interest; this and this alone determines all adventurers in privateers: the owners, as well as those whom they employ.

When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist.

I don't wanna work with people who only want to make money.

Tears for Fears was always very personal, but at the same time, it was always big business, a lot of pressure.

It's music. It's supposed to be fun and inspirational. You have to be inspired. If I did it because it was my 'job,' and I only did it to make money, I don't think I'd still be doing it.