John Niven Quotes

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try to get as many gigs as I could. I wanted to keep writing and then eventually, in my twenties, head to a record label and hope they'd sit down and listen to my book of songs, sign me as a songwriter and maybe an artist in development.

When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

I moved to New York to pursue music.

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

And I just pray that god gives me longevity in the music industry.

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

I have enjoyed writing my own stuff, and it's been a privilege to be able to scrap some money together to be able to make films from my own scripts.

You're in a band 24 hours a day.

In 1972 through '74, right before we hit it big, we were hauling our own equipment into the club and setting up and playing for, I don't know, a hundred bucks a night.

I've no grand designs to conquer the music industry, but I'd love to be able to tell my mates that I'm playing in a pub in Camden one night.

I would urge all bands that say they only care about credibility and don't care about money to send Gene Simmons every dollar that they don't want. I'd be happy to take it off them.

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.

I love that young bands will do anything to succeed.

If you become famous and don't have a live show to back it up, they're not going to pay you any money.

I always wanted to be a singer first.

There is something embarrassing about asking for money, but if I hadn't done that, I would have not continued to be a professional musician.

It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.

I'm lucky that I enjoy touring as much as I do. I'm not going to make a living just making records.

It's actually one of my dreams to have my own album. My music genre is dark pop.

As musicians, we are quite literally singing for our supper. Don't get me wrong, I love touring, but the reality is that our idols from the '70s and '80s never toured this hard. They'd do a record, have one big world tour, maybe two, then break to do another record.

Since I was 19, I've said, 'I'm gonna sign for a million.'

Making your band your career just seems like a pipe dream when it's not happening, and when it does, it seems so surreal.