I am very fond of fresh air and royalties.
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. "
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++.
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].
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!
In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.
Hillary Clinton and her husband, the former president, are of course by all measures quite wealthy as well, having earned tens of millions of dollars in book royalties and speaking fees in recent years. Which is why in speeches, she leans heavily on her family history.
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.
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.
Let's crowd source, curate, and add royalties to books
I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.
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.
We've had incredibly huge obstacles in our way - no tapes, no royalties, no cooperation on any level - and we sort it out.
