"I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity." - Artie Shaw (when asked why he walked off stage at the Hotel Pennsylvania in 1939, and eventually moved to a little village in Mexico.)
source: Jazz Connection Magazine
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Miles Davis Quotes
"Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money." - Miles Davis
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
Miles Davis Quotes
"Tom Jones is funny to me, man. I mean, he really tries to ape Ray Charles and Sammy Davis, you know. He's nice–looking; he looks good doing it. I mean, if I was him, I'd do the same thing. If I was only thinking about making money." - Miles Davis
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
Miles Davis Quotes
"I don't hold it against Dizzy [Gillespie], you know, but if a guy wants to play a certain way, you work towards that. If he stops — he's full of crap, you know. I mean, I wouldn't do it, for no money, or for no place in the white man's world. Not just to make money, because then you don't have anything. You don't have as much money as whoever you're trying to ape; that's making money by being commercial. Then you don't have anything to give the world; so you're not important. You might as well be dead." - Miles Davis
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
source: Interview with Les Tomkins, 1969
Robby Krieger Quotes
"I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music." - Robby Krieger (Guitarist of 'The Doors')
Duke Ellington Quotes
"There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have too have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is too pay them money!" - Duke Ellington
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"Miles got a mysticque about him — plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money." - Dizzy Gillespie
Joe Williams Quotes
"I used to make more money in one night than I got in a week working with [Count] Basie. Somebody’d say: 'I'm gonna give you $200, I want you to come over here and sing two songs, 'Every Day I Have the Blues', and 'Stop, Pretty Baby'. People loved that, and women wanted to march out in their finery while I sang 'Stop'." - Joe Williams
Sarah Vaughan Quotes
"I'm not heart-broken if I don't have a hit. But I guess a hit would help. It makes the money go up a bit." - Sarah Vaughan
Woody Herman Quotes
"Musically, the bebop route was magnificent, but businesswise, it was the dumbest thing I ever did." - Woody Herman
Dizzy Gillespie Quotes
"It was a financial fiasco because all our checks bounced. Charlie Parker cashed his at the box office, so he was 'in'. Then the master tapes were taken by [Charles] Mingus and put out, and we didn't receive any money for years and years and years and years." - Dizzy Gillespie (on "Jazz at Massey Hall")
Louis Armstrong Quotes
"Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is." - Louis Armstrong
Nat King Cole Quotes
"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value." - Nat King Cole
Mel Torme Quotes
"Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year." - Mel Torme
Kenny G Quotes
"I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity." - Kenny G
John McLaughlin Quotes
"There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial." - John McLaughlin
Glenn Miller Quotes
"Why do you judge me as a musician? All I'm interested in is making money." - Glenn Miller
Artie Shaw Quotes
There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
Artie Shaw Quotes
"I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band." - Artie Shaw
