Dennis Rodman Quotes

I have been skeptical, sometimes, about the importance of rap music, which I think is a capitalistic project to make money.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

I started rapping before anybody had ever bought a car from it. It was truly about the art form and the culture, more so than now, where it's a successful way to make money. Back then you had to be doing it because you liked it.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

Miley Cyrus is about making money. Amanda Palmer is about making art.

Because obviously the whole purpose of putting records out is purely and simply to make money.

Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.

I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.

I got a liberal education. A white guy, rapping as Bugs Bunny, on a quintuple-platinum album.

I feel like I changed hip-hop.

It's important to me that I don't get trapped in the whole teen scene, because I feel that you can get lost in those kind of movies, and they aren't really about the actors; they're about the selling of the concept, and how much money it makes.

The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings.

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

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.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.

I really wish there was some big brother conspiracy theory. I just think it's the ignorance of trying to make a dollar. That's what the networks have done and will continue to do. If anyone doesn't think that this is about making money, then they're crazy.

The day Obama got into office, rap was less important because Obama gave kids an alternative. But will rap ever go away? No. There will always be a need for poets.

Until black culture as a whole is effectively disentangled from the python-grip of hip-hop, and by extension the street, we are not going to see any real progress.

When I'm in the studio with other rappers, we talk about social issues.