Royalty Quotes - Page 9

• When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

  Stephen Colbert

  Important, Matter, Excited

  Twitter post from Apr 08, 2011

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• Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

  Doris Lessing

  Stars, Cutting, People

  'The Habit of Loving' (1957) ch. 17

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• I've been getting publishing royalties and stuff like that. I have just been lucky. They come in at the right time. Sometimes they don't, but I am not wealthy or anything like that. I just love to work. I would rather work three hundred and something days out of the year. I would rather be working. They don't know. I love playing. Then I can really get my music together.

  Pharoah Sanders

  Years, Together, Lucky

  "A Fireside Chat With Pharoah Sanders". All About Jazz Interview, www.allaboutjazz.com. March 21, 2003.

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• Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What my party Gana Peru is stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty.

  Ollanta Humala

  Party, Giving, Water

  Source: www.slate.com

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• 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

  Years, Long, Upgrading

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• 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

  Tape, Levels, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Mean, Income, Records

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• Most larger companies now see that for the market to grow, Web infrastructure must be royalty-free.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Infrastructure, Company, Grows

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• 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

  Book, Ideas, Looks

  "Video: a visit with Joyce Carol Oates" by Kristina Budelis, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2013.

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• What I can't understand why Blacks can't achieve royal status when it comes to forms that they have largely created? I mean there's a White King of Rock n' Roll, there's a White King of Jazz, how come we can never achieve titles of royalty in these fields we are supposed to prevail in? They held a so called Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the other night, where White judges credit people who resemble them with the invention of Rock and Roll. I didn't even see Blacks in the audience.

  Ishmael Reed

  Kings, Mean, Night

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still good that people can get your music, and hopefully in the course of that, people will want to see you live, around the world shows. It might get you to where you get to travel all over the planet. 'Cause now people are hungry: "Oh, I wanna see this guy, I wanna hear this music live, I wanna see if they're gonna remix it or funk it up differently when I see them."

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Artist, People, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Record industry's not so much against artists, but certain people are just wicked people that sit up in the industry who go against the artist. The thing is, if you're in the recording business, where's our health benefits? Where's the royalties from when you put stuff on labels in different countries? And now, with all these 500 cable channels, you want your mechanical royalties, your licensing. There's so much technology that you've got to stay on top. They always try to tell you, "Oh, don't worry about the business side, just do the music."

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Country, Artist, Technology

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They're distant, you can idealize them. But there's room to have compassion for people and see them as human beings. Just because they're royalty, it doesn't mean they don't love, or feel loss, or feel pain.

  Claire Foy

  Pain, Mean, Loss

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

  Jeff Bridges

  Kings, Men, People

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• In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corporation should be allowed to amass that kind of unlimited wealth, including bestselling writers like myself, who are showered with royalties.

  Arundhati Roy

  People, Corporations, India

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• 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

  Smart, Musician, Hobbies

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Every person at a record company didn't want to be bothered with me because I was too smart. They knew if I recorded, they were going to have to pay me. They knew I wasn't going to be the artist that would just go in and record. I wanted to know about my royalties.

  L.C. Cooke

  Smart, Artist, Records

  Source: www.soultracks.com

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• I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.

  Bill Bright

  Book, Dollars, Messengers

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• 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

  Song, Writing, Issues

  Interview with Matthew Murphy, pitchfork.com. October 23, 2005.

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• I learned that not only am I a descendant of slaves, but that I am also a descendant of royalty, that there are politicians from the 1800s as well as Tuskegee Airmen in my lineage.

  Cuba Gooding, Jr.

  Lineage, Politician, Slave

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 17, 2012.

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• It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  House, Rooms, Poverty

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• 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

  Children, Thinking, Growth

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• Ennio Morricone is royalty. He doesn't really do this a lot and Quentin brought him back [in Hateful Eight]. Quentin [Tarantino] basically went back and made his The Good, The Bad and The Ugly-kind of film, the ultimate epic spaghetti western, and then you've got mister spaghetti western himself scoring your movie. It's gonna be hard to not vote for him in a landslide. Probably the easiest win of the night.

  Bun B

  Winning, Night, Epic

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• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Queens, Native American

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• I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

  Hunter Hayes

  Inspiration, Grateful, Chance

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