Quotes About Expression

We didn't start Theocracy because we wanted to be cool like so-and-so and make money. Our songs aren't trendy, and our lyrics hopefully make people think about certain concepts in a new way.

Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.

I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

It is not right for painters to think that painting is like prostitution, that 'first you do it for love, then you do it for others, and finally you do it for money.

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Money is a kind of poetry.

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it because you love it.

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

Look, Salvador Dali did not paint because he needed the money. No conversation about materialism and music makes sense. You make music and that's that, it doesn't matter why.

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

Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.

Not everybody paints what the public will pay for. The method in which an artist receives money is nobody's business, what matters is that paintings are produced.

Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on a wall.

I would make far more money if every song were my own, but I don't write to fill up the album with my songs.