Jon Bellion Quotes

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

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

I don't know how much money I've made, don't know how many albums I've sold.

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that.

If I was going to sell out, I would do it for more than 10,000 records.

I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit.

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.

To set the record straight for the God knows millionth time, we certainly didn't sign to Atlantic just for the money.

I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one.

So you have to just be really careful and make sure that when a deal comes along, that it's like the right deal for you... not necessarily the most money, because you have to pay the record label that back in like record sales and stuff.

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

In whichever way my music can get out there, I'm just like, 'Sure.' It's also through the TV synch licenses that I've been surviving. I don't really make money through record sales. I used to be really picky: 'No, I don't want it to be the song of a commercial,' but nowadays it's what you need to do to get the song out as much as you can.

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.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.

I've never made a film that lost money.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Ideally, I'd like to have a movie that people like and makes money.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered after 'Soapstar Superstar,' made a quick covers album and probably had some success for five minutes. I decided that wasn't for me.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.