Artist Earnings Quotes

There's a tendency to make more money at concerts. That's from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact between the artist and the audience.

No one really gets rich doing this. A couple people do, Black Sabbath does. We don't sell any records anymore.

You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there's less and less money in the music industry.

I had seventeen No. 1 songs and I didn't see anything like that kind of money.

Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind.

Playing out in a band all the time at least you made money. Even if you have a hit song, it takes about two years to pay.

I'm delighted about the track's success in the sports world, but the frustrating thing is, I don't think I got rich on it. The labels and publishers did very cheap deals on our songs.

When you go pick out my album, the money actually comes to me and my company directly.

A long time ago, Prince said that no musician is ever gonna make money off the Internet, and he was right.

Most artists are making as much money now as they could have made... in the heyday of Def Jam [when the] Beastie Boys would sell 10 million records or DMX would sell 6 or 7 million records. Those records are one thing, but then all the other ways to exploit the emotional relationship between artist and community is so much greater that I would guess that they're making as much or more money than they could have ever made.

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for it, because, you know, with the advent of the computer and online and downloading and all these things, they have destroyed - that stuff has destroyed the record business, not the music business, but the record business. The music business is well, and it's alive and thriving. Now, I hope something happens to turn it back around to the point whereas it's - you're earning a living from writing your songs, from your work, you know, because it's not like that anymore.

The money from every unit being sold is what I feel every artist should see.

Just because my song was being played on the radio didn't mean I had a load of money. You don't get royalties overnight.

I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.