#publishing

I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history. ↗

— Rick James

#anymore #artist #because #company #dollars

Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows. ↗

— Jam Master Jay

#control #crew #distribute #got #group

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

#got #i #i do #income #live

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively

So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#book #editing #few #gave #go

Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g., much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#behind #biggest #brought #changes #desktop

To the extent that '60s guys own things, yes... but I don't have the publishing, just like most '60s guys, and that was an error, you know... part ownership in publishing was the kind of era that started a little bit later, when real businessmen started to manage artists. ↗

— John Sebastian

#bit #businessmen #era #error #extent

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

#making #play #process #publishing #rehearsing

I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos. ↗

— Duncan Sheik

#demos #got #i #money #publishing

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. ↗

— Seth Godin

#books #bunch #economics #favor #first