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Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales. -- John Perry Barlow
Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards. -- Christo
I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt. -- Benny Hinn
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. -- Mark Millar
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. -- Clarence Darrow
Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America. -- Elliott Carter
It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work. -- Cat Stevens
The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in. -- Sydney Carter
You get royalties from certain songs that you do when you do background. It's according to the work that you put in. -- Merry Clayton
I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't. -- Joe Strummer
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. -- Stephen Hawking
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing. -- Jo Stafford
Fossil fuel corporations are supposed to pay the government fair market royalties in exchange for the right to drill on public lands or in federal waters. -- Bernie Sanders
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. -- Ron Kind
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time. -- Robert H. Schuller
I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties. -- Elton John
I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties. -- Agatha Christie
Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-old poet! -- Mitchell Zuckoff
I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties. -- Randy Quaid
Skating was popular, but it wasn't mainstream. It had this underground following, and you could go on tours, win decent prize money, and make royalties from signature products - that's how I came to buy a house when I was a senior in high school. -- Tony Hawk
Is it better to go indie and make bigger profits on each book, or stick with a print publisher's 6%-10% royalties? Since I never could figure out what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'm hedging my bets and working both sides of the street. -- Ruth Glick
In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources. -- Victor Ponta
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and for the rest of my life I would be writing books and collecting royalties. Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. -- Jerry Spinelli
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted. -- Grace Slick
I haven't the faintest idea what my royalties are. I haven't the faintest idea how many copies of books sold, or how many books that I've written. I could look these things up; I have no interest in them. I don't know how much money I have. There are a lot of things I just don't care about. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I am very fond of fresh air and royalties. -- Daisy Ashford
Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books -- Walter Isaacson
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs]. -- Leonard Cohen
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me. -- Ba Jin
You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair. -- Jeff Foxworthy
I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties. -- Chuck Mosley
Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties. -- Chris Patten
I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out. -- Paul McCartney
We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out. -- Kevin Shields
In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet. -- Terry Bozzio
And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to us from C++. -- Darl McBride
The writer who can't do his job looks to his editor to do it for him, though he won't dream of sharing his royalties with that editor. -- Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.
After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while. -- Demetri Martin
Many first-time authors are not concerned about the advance or royalties, they want the notoriety. They get smarter on their second book and look for the money. -- Dan Poynter
I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties. -- George Shearing
The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films. -- Emanuel Azenberg
Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete! -- Kanye West
When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination, cross-pollination, health problems, the response is we're not liable. -- Vandana Shiva
If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties. -- Robyn Hitchcock

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