Melissa Auf der Maur Quotes

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

I only want to make enough money to make more music.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

I have more perspective now, and am happier now. It's not that I don't want success, but I now know I can have success at a lower level and make much more money doing it by myself. I make $6 or $7 bucks a record vs. nothing off those other records.

I never do anything for money; I get paid a lot of money as a by-product.

I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

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

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

The secret of my success is that I make other people money. And, never ever, ever, ever be ashamed about trying to earn as much as possible for yourself, if the person you're working with is also making money. That's life!

Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

I guess I want to make money just like other people, perhaps more than most people.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

Selling music doesn't make that much money.

Getting rich is about fun. It's a game, and you have to treat it that way.

I'm just an artist that makes good music and has a good idea to make money off of that.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

Ain't no money like music money, because music money don't stop.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

If financial assets no longer work for you at a rate far and above the rate of true wealth creation, then you must work longer for your money.

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