Freddie Gibbs Quotes

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.

The happiest I ever been was when I was a struggling actor. I've had big houses and small houses. I always had work available for most of my career. When I actually had to find jobs to make money, that's when I was happy.

There's a part of me that wants to be known and make a comfortable living but still be able to go grocery shopping. My overall idea of success is having people I want to work with want to work with me.

I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.

I make a good living doing what I do.

Is it really selling out if it feeds your family?

Sometimes I just think we get caught up in the entertainment aspect of this business and people kind of forget that this is the way we feed our families and this is our livelihoods.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

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.

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

I don't live to work; I work to live.

A job should bring enough for a worker and family to live on, but after that, self-realization, the exercise of one's gifts and talents, is what truly matters.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

At least three times a week, I am overwhelmed with a wave of gratitude to New York City for providing me with a life. Not that my life is so great, although I think it's pretty nifty: I don't mine coal; I get paid to write.

You see, we all want the same things. We want to be able to take care of our families, provide for our children, to have a roof over our heads and a good-paying job.

I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.

I always made a decent living.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

I could easily exist on less money, but I like the way I live now.

You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.

Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.