Elliott Carter Quotes

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.

The difference between being a rich guy in America and a rich guy in Europe is that in America people look up to you for being rich.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

You don't leave behind box office scores or how many dollars changed hands.

I felt like any other American kid. I already worked at a steady job as an ice cream scooper, but I didn't feel less in any way than my more affluent friends from school.

Their argument, and I think it's a correct one, is that they'll make more money from the trades and the hardcovers if nobody messes with the creative team.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

In today's world, it never looks good when you're suing somebody who earned $20,000 for writing a book over a period of a year or two.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

It is a fact that around the world the elites of every country are making money.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

Lawyers are making more money than the cleanup folks are.