Debbie Harry Quotes

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

There is nothing namable but that some men will undertake to do it for pay.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

I get paid for what most kids get punished for.

Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.

All artists deserve compensation for their work, including musicians.

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

It doesn't matter what you make - if you create a movie or build a car or whatever, it's the amount of blood, sweat, and tears and money and everything that goes into it that needs to be rewarded.

The first paid show was in Los Angeles at an art opening and I was paid maybe, I don't know, twenty five bucks?

I'd always been a good athlete and I liked getting paid what they paid you for stunts. In those days, they paid you per stunt so I'd try to do as many as I could.

In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.

It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

What's worth doing is worth doing for money.

Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things.

A writer has to fully defend his rights and his own worth.

I have a real kind of fundamental philosophical belief that movies are better if everyone gets paid when they work, and if they don't work, the people who worked on them make a little bit of money, and the people who finance them, they lose, but they don't lose too much. I believe that that creates better work.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

It all comes down to money. If the money is right, I'll fight anybody, any time. I'll hit my grandma in the face if the price is right.

Obviously, artists need to make money and stuff like that, but if you do something good or if you make good art or make good stuff, the wealth will find you in some way.

I just don't like to do photography for money.

Shoot, I ain't working for free. You can never have enough money.