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 love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about 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.‘

Pop music will never be low brow.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

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

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

I’m like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

You don’t hear no artists from Compton showing vulnerability.

I have a living will and I have friends, and I have money and I have hope.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

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.

I don’t think I’d ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

One day a guy tried to rob me on the street, and I had no money. So I charged him.

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don’t know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn’t have cash on him.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

In 2013, the week before I dropped ‚Crenshaw,‘ ‚Complex‘ wrote an article that said that Nipsey Hussle is one of the top 25 underperforming artists. I was so offended that I responded with my own opinion about these journalists – their point of view is not validated in our culture.

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn’t expecting it.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Looking at 2014, I look back: we made more money off ‚Mailbox Money‘ than we would have made off taking an advance from anybody. We made more money letting our fans buy the stuff directly from us than what any label could have offered us.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I’m not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it’s so that people really know what Bad Bunny’s about.

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

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it’s like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You’d better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that’s really the only unique situation that’s going to be left.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

I probably could have toured off ‚Trilogy‘ for the rest of my life. It definitely changed the culture. No one can do a trilogy again without thanking The Weeknd.

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

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

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.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Over the years I’ve met quite a few big rappers. Then it exploded with 50 Cent, and I did a book with him. It’s always a strange meeting of two worlds, it’s very exciting.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Money is an unavoidable consequence, but it isn’t the reason I write; if it was, I wouldn’t have written any of the YA books, because advances in that field are small compared to what I’d got now for an ‚adult‘ DW.