David Guetta Quotes

I'm just excited that I get to put out the music I love versus music just for the sake of it.

My goal was never to sell many records.

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 never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it did with 'Clarity,' but my goal is to always make a better track than the last one.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I make music not to make money but because it's in me.

I suppose we'll make money off our album and our singles and stuff, but, like, they were made as we wanted them, exactly with what we had to say, and done exactly how we wanted them, right? And, like, we didn't put them out to make money. We put them out because we wanted to do them, do you know what I mean?

If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.

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

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I just love making music, and I wouldn't want to stop.

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

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

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.

Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not.

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.

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.

I just want to keep writing music.

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter.

That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers have done so. But for me, it has to remain the principal thing that I actually want to do the writing.

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.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

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