Quotes About Royalties

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. My rich dad taught me to focus on passive income and spend my time acquiring the assets that provide passive or long term residual income ... passive income from capital gains, dividends, residual income from business, rental income from real estate, and royalties.

Robert Kiyosaki

#4. Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?"
I also whispered, but only because he was whispering, "Only if you stop using the f-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it."
"I'll fucking use whatever fucking word I want to fucking use whenever I fucking want to.

Penny Reid

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

Clarence Darrow

#8. 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

#9. Steve did a prepayment on royalties to make sure we had the resources to stay in business,

Jessica Livingston

#10. The songs certainly have not made my fortune, but I am still grateful for the royalties when they come in.

Sydney Carter

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. This has been a long and tiring battle for 10 years. And I'm glad it's finally resolved. My principles and reputation as a creative artist were involved here-it wasn't just about the royalties. I can now look foward to getting on with my career.

Irene Cara

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. but the idea of paying someone an hourly rate to use his studio to work on songs for his album, for which you wouldn't receive royalties, is absurd.

Byron Crawford

#19. The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think it's time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.

Vandana Shiva

#20. And in fact, writing is one of the worst-paid professions in the world: The average book sells fewer than 500 copies The average writer makes less than $10,000 per book advance. The average self-published author makes less $5000 in royalties per year.

Monica Leonelle

#21. Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.

Chris Patten

#22. I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.

Ba Jin

#23. 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

#24. All the new songs have been written since the re-issue of Diamond Day. With my first royalties I got a Mac and a little mixer and a keyboard, figured out the basics of a music program, and gradually started to write and record the songs and the arrangements.

Vashti Bunyan

#25. Fuck your royalties and die.

Robin Benway

#26. 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

#27. I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

Benny Hinn

#28. Call the priest. You're in a better mood when he's around. He doesn't brood like you do." "He invented brooding. He holds the patent on brooding. He gets royalties whenever anyone broods. You just haven't seen him do it yet.

Tiffany Reisz

#29. The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.

Mark Millar

#30. I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.

Prince

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work.

Cat Stevens

#36. 10% of authors earn 75% of the royalties. If you're writing a Romance novel, your odds will be slightly higher at making back your investment. Throw in a few vampires, even better.

J.R. Young

#37. Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books

Walter Isaacson

#38. 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

#39. Industry stakeholders have said to us, which we've heard loud and clear, as we move forward on the climate change discussions we need to do it with a clear eye on the fact that we are also having conversations around royalties and the two can't be separated.

Rachel Notley

#40. That an author takes a bow is not humility but presumption. What does the paleface want on the stage afterwards? But before the performance he had even less business there
and paying him royalties is equivalent to cheating the actors.

Karl Kraus

#41. We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Stephen Hawking

#42. You might be a redneck if Exxon and Conoco have offered you royalties for your hair.

Jeff Foxworthy

#43. 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

#44. I live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.

Oriana Fallaci

#45. Talking about a materialistic thing, I get about 13 times more royalties from Europe than I do from America.

Elliott Carter

#46. Had J.D. Salinger known who John Hinckley and mark David Chapman were before they bought his books or took them out of the library? Would it have mattered if he had? Had he returned the royalties he received from those purchases?

Adam Langer

#47. 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

#48. In the presence of ... civil war, to testify to humanity! ... to prove that above royalties, above revolutions, above earthly questions, there is the immense emotion of the human soul!

Victor Hugo

#49. I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#50. The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

Philip Pullman

#51. If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. Only if you stop using the F-word like you get paid royalties every time you say it.

Penny Reid

#56. Toni donates 15% of her royalties from EDGE OF SURVIVAL to diabetes research - to find out why, read the book!

Toni Anderson

#57. I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.

Daisy Ashford

#58. Some days are better than other days
A good day is getting 10 royalties and 10 great reviews

Ray Mathews

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. When I was releasing EPs by myself, I was generating royalties. And when I signed, I thought I'd put those royalties into other artists. And interestingly, streaming is most of the income for those artists.

Gabrielle Aplin

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

Christo