Quotes About Expression

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Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Who needs a handbag? I put my money in my bra.

You cannot create a piece of art merely for money. Doing it as part of commerce so denudes art of wonder that it ceases to be art.

My God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

People like to say their songs are like children, but you gotta get those kids out there so they can make some money and pay the rent.

What is a screenplay? 120 pages of begging for money and attention.

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.

I wasn't put on this earth to amass money or personal wealth. I was put on this earth to play guitar and write songs.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.

Pop music is created by repression - and then the system takes it and makes even more money with it!

Theater is not to make a living, so I don't have the money pressure.

Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

I don't really do much social media. I just don't like it that much. I've trained myself to write very slowly for a lot of money so it really galls me to write quickly for free.

Where there is money there is no art.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader

I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.

Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.

I just had it with the corporate money, money, money label thing.

Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

You know, I never did music for money. I did music to hear myself in the club, and to hear my creation on the radio.

I don't want to pay good money to hear ordinary people's lunatic views. Most of the people who phone in are [lunatics] - certainly in Britain.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.