Vinnie Paul Quotes

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.

It's been a blessing that I can provide for my family just by doing music. I never thought this would ever be my occupation.

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

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

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

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 feel very blessed we can still have a career making music.

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

I decided I'm gonna make my living from this, or I'm not doing it. The last time I had a job that wasn't an acting job was '88, and I'm quite proud of that.

I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

To be in a position, at my age, where I am financially independent, I can help develop things, I can promote stuff that I believe in, I can say no a lot and spend time writing - that is a gift.

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'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I've always felt blessed.

There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

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.

I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Rock 'n' roll accepted me and paid me, even though I loved the big bands... I went that way because I wanted a home of my own. I had a family. I had to raise them. Let's don't leave out the economics. No way.