Jon Anderson Quotes

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.

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

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

It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.

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.

The crowd doesn't give a crap as long as you bring the money in.

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.

The plan is to make money, and we know the fans are going to ask for mixtapes, and those mixtapes are going to hit. So when we put a tape out, we have more money coming in, that's why we work hard at it.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

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.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.

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.

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.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

There are values on Broadway that are dangerous: it's got to be Best Musical, it's got to make money, it's got to run a certain amount of time. Nowhere in this, of course, is there any mention of quality.

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

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

The players in the promotion business today are, by and large, not in it for the art anymore. It's all about how many bucks can you make on a concert.

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.