Eddi Reader Quotes

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.

Hollywood used to be run by artists and people who loved artists... people who wanted to make movies for all the right reasons. For the love. The Art. To tell stories. Yes to make money as well, but it was about both. Now I feel, it's mostly about bottom line and making money.

If you're making music strictly to make money, you might as well find another job.

When I was still doing indie, it was just purely art. I don't think about how much I will get paid or how much the movie will earn.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money, when they can make films that make huge money.

Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money.

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

I don't believe that artists really are interested in money. That's not the motivation for art.

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

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

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.

In my world, if you want to make a record to make money, you're already off to a bad start.

I’m not producing movies to make money

If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.

I don't make movies thinking: 'Oh, this is going to be a huge box-office hit.'

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.

I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.

You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. Our obligation is to make 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'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Not to say people shouldn't get rich from art. I adore the alchemy wherein artists who cast a complex spell make rich people give them their money. (Just writing it makes me cackle.) But too many artists have been making money without magic.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.