Are you referring to this?:

Money isn't important, but you have to have enough, so you don't have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.

Depending on how you interpret it, "enough money that you don't have to think about it" could mean a lot of money. And given that this is a famous musician talking...

To expand on Lumifer's point, maybe most people really do care about positional goods. Or rather, they care about the status positional goods bring (and various indirect benefits of status). After all, there does seem to be a lot of independent evidence that most people care a lot about status.