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We only had enough money really to cut 10 things and be in there for a month because it's expensive, you know. And, singer/songwriters, today are lucky if they can get a deal, you know. So, we actually worked so fast that we really cut 20 things.

— Graham Nash

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

— Mickey Gilley

I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

— Justin Timberlake

A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.

— Maxwell

But I remember we sold nearly 18,000 records in one day.

— Neil Innes

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

— Neal Schon

We've written something like 900 songs in all.

— Barry Mann

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.

— Ted Nelson

I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.

— Barry McGuire

✗Opposing Perspectives

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

— Colin Greenwood

It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

— Yolandi Visser