Kenny Beats Quotes

I don't sell millions of records. As a matter of fact, I'm not even interested in selling millions of records. I enjoy MCing. I make a decent amount of money. I can feed my kids. I keep a roof over my head. I don't have to sell a million records to maintain my lifestyle.

I'm just making music, and I'm paying my bills.

I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I feel lucky that I've been able to make a living from painting any idea that comes into my head.

My big goal in life was always to figure out how I can make a lot of money so I can go off and make films irrespective of the opinion of the three or four critics who seem to rule the roost.

I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'

When I was 19, I made my first good week's pay as a club musician. It was enough money for me to quit my job at the factory and still pay the rent and buy some food. I freaked.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

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 planned to be a professional artist - I just want to be a sustainable artist. I guess they're the same thing if you look at them from a different angle.

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

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

I want to be doing something that I love and actually being able to feed myself by doing it.

As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.

We have to make a living and you can't do that playing bluegrass.

I have to continue to work, and I have to be touring, because that's how I earn a living.

I have a teaching job that allows me to pay the rent and affords me to, frankly, write the books I want to write.

I always said as long as I had enough money to feed myself and have a place to eat then I'd be doing music.

I'm calculated in other things, but not in what I make.

I was brought up knowing that you have to make a living.

I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.

Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.

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.