What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
I see man more as an instrument or an agent more than anything else.
And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs.
Money is the kind of instrument which is very speedily produced.
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.
One of my aims was to be paid as well as a plumber. Plumber was better-paid than any performance artist who was always doing this for free. It is so important to make a good living from art. You know, John Cage, until he was 60, he couldn't pay electricity.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
I believe that if a man does a job as well as a woman, he should be paid as much.