Gregg Allman Quotes

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

It doesn't matter how big the shows are, as long as I'm making a living playing music. That's all that matters to me.

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

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

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.

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.

I DJ'd for years. I DJ'd in high school, and I think my parents thought it was a passing thing. And then when I was in my second year of college, I was like, 'Yeah, you guys don't need to send me money anymore. My DJ gigs are good enough. I'm selling music; I think I'm gonna have a record deal. I can pay my tuition.'

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

The only thing that was economic, I might say, about my music career, aside from the fact that I did everybody's tax returns in the band, was the decision I made to leave the music business on economic grounds.

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

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

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

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 don't get handed money - and I never will. I have to work!

I think my attitude has always been to put food on the table.

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the 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.

You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

The main thing in measuring integrity is someone's motive and intent, not how many records they sell. Our intent in Ministry was never to be big. We just wanted to make enough money to live and to buy a studio, which we have done in Austin.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.