Dionne Warwick Quotes

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.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.

I'd never been paid for the first Roses LP - it was 2002 before we received any royalties.

Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

Punishing people for listening to music is exactly the wrong way to protect the music business.

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

With Spotify and all those streaming services, you don't get paid anything. You have to be, like, Madonna or something to actually make a real royalty from that.

Music is everywhere - you consume it every day, everywhere you go. The content creator should be compensated. It's only fair.

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 last thing we want is for radio to say that they can't afford to play our artists and turn off the pipe.

The library companies have made it so that music is so cheap to license. They do sound-alikes of every band, and it makes it harder for the actual bands to get any decent paychecks for licensing.

Major labels don't play with samples not being cleared.

Music copyright and licensing laws haven't kept up with technology or the times. The Music Modernization Act fixes that with a comprehensive set of reforms that will help musicians receive royalties they are owed while ensuring the public has access to that music.

I can do anything onstage. Here's the misconception: You could record an album called 'The Best of Styx.' And all you would have to do is pay the individual songwriters a mechanical royalty.

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

This is a turf battle. They are saying, 'The songwriters aren't getting paid.' Baloney. Songwriters are getting paid. They're paid sync rights and (mechanical) rights. They aren't getting paid for the public performance in a download because there is no public performance in a download.

There are so many songs I've recorded, only to hear other people singing them. It happens all the time.

I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.

When Pandora doesn't pay, and bars don't pay, and weddings don't pay, and nobody buys CDs or shirts or concert tickets or lessons, then the musician can't make a living making music.

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance.

I would never put my songs in a commercial.

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.