A development deal is where they’re giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they’ll put an album out.

I need to know how many records I’ve sold, how many album equivalents from streaming, which territories are playing my music more than others, because it helps me in conversations about where we’re gonna be playing shows or where I might open a retail location, like a pop-up store or something.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

I’ve never thought about any kind of prejudice about women in country music because I never felt like it affected me. I was fortunate enough to come about in a time when I didn’t feel that kind of energy at all, and it was always my theory that if you want to play in the same ballgame as the boys, you’ve got to work as hard as them.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world’s popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, ‚Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we’ll talk.‘

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Money ain’t everything.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

A lot of the records you buy, there’s nothing you can hold in your hand, it’s all 1’s and 0’s, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I feel like I write so that people can think of it as theirs. If my song is exactly about your life right now, then it is – I don’t even want to say that it’s mine, because it’s yours.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I’ve never been interested in that.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I’d say probably in the early ’70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, ‚cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

All of my records, I produced, put together completely. All of them. Maybe Drake might come with an idea, and I might finish it. You gotta remember what a producer is. Quincy Jones is a producer.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies.

Even though I’m known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

If it’s a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn’t, so in the end they just released it themselves.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.