Robyn Hitchcock Quotes

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

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

If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.

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.

My wife gave me a year to start making money out of writing, and after six months, I'd made not a bean. Suddenly, the books took off, and the beans started coming in!

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

I had one year of struggle. My parents were always there, but I didn't want to rely on them. Now it's moving pretty fast. I'm not rich, but obviously this is fantastic. All I know to do with money is put it in a shoebox anyway.

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

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

Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

If you wanna make money in music, you're better off being on the business end of it a lot of the time. And also as a musician, if you do make money, it means you had to bite and scratch and kick the whole way to not get ripped off, because at every corner, there's somebody there waiting to trip you up and take a bigger chunk.

At 19 I was lucky enough to start making money from my music career, and when I was in my early twenties I trusted financial experts and advisers to guide me with how I invested money.

I've been a signed artist, but it's only been a full year-and-a-half. I'm still kind of new to money and this kind of lifestyle, so me being in a messed up predicament wasn't too long ago.

For most of my life, making music has cost me money. So I learned to live very, very cheaply.

It's called the music business. We've all gone into it 'cause we love the music, and a lot of people end up with nothing at the end of the day, after they've done all of this great music, 'cause they never learned any of the business side.

I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and when I was at university, the electronic music boom started really taking off globally.

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

The only excuse for being broke is being in Jail.

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

I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.

I only made x amount of albums in 20 years and to still be living comfortably. A lot of people and friends look at me and be like yo Ra how do you do it? You don't go on tour every year and you don't make an album every year, you chill with your family and watch TV. Everyone else is out on tour getting that money. But I managed to do my thing right with the help of my accountant and I'm still comfortable.

I knew I could make money from songwriting, so how much and when was not really the question.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.