Michael McKean Quotes

But for me, I thought you made a record, you got on a bus, went out and played your shows and made a lot of money. That was the way it was supposed to go down. But there's a lot more to it than that. There are a lot of early mornings, late nights, a lot of traveling, a lot of being away from home, being away from your family.

I've been on big tours ever since I started, but you can't just go out there and headline, you have to do it right.

We're playing small clubs and doing it all in a van. I have management, and they've done a good job of getting our tour plan together, but we're still having to go and rent the vehicles and all the little things you need to do. You really have to watch your budget.

To be very honest, my reason for getting away from 'Pepsi Battle of the Bands' was because I was on tour. I wanted to be on tour, and the amount I was asking for, they said that they couldn't pay it.

Picture all the money that I've gotten off tours. Now picture me plotting for more.

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

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

The primary goal of a vendor is to make money.

The reason I don't tour is that I don't know how to front a band. What would I do? I can't really play anything well enough to deal with that situation.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.

Once you've been on tour six, seven years, you get an idea of what works and what doesn't work universally. There will be some crowds that we just can't play a song, but we've got 90% of a show that we know is going to be a hit with the Lupe Fiasco fan. I think the catering has already been done.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

It's very hard to tour.

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

I think in 2016 I'm going to focus on performing a lot more and doing as many shows as I can. There's plans to tour more, and that's where my heart is - doing the live shows.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.

I'm not in business to make money.

It's very American, making a lot of money.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

If the books are selling, the money will follow.

My movies make a profit, but obviously not a fortune.