Clinton Jones

[on money] It cannot buy you happiness. Some independence, yes.

A bank book makes good reading – better than some novels.

Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash.

Most of the artists were trying to make a living, trying to get laid, trying to figure out who they were. They weren’t trying to change the world. That’s what other people put on them. I knew all those people. I knew them all, intimately and well. Bob Dylan. I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I’ve known in my life. That’s just the truth.

I’ve been poor and I’ve been rich and rich is better.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

Acting used to be how I paid the rent, but I sold a tequila company for a billion f**king dollars. I don’t need money.

I don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

There is only one amount of money – just not enough!

[On Roberts saying ‘I don’t know if I want to give up my whole management company and take it apart.’] Don’t be stupid. I’ll make you more money than you’ve made alone.

Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is.

Bankers are just like anybody else, only richer

You can’t borrow your way to prosperity. Look for ways to create value and you will attract money.