[linux-audio-user] Linux-Music and making a living...

[R Parker]

--- Brad Fuller <brad at sonaural.com> wrote:

> On 07:40 PM Dave Robillard wrote:
> >  I have yet to meet a musician worth listening to
> who's in it for the
> >  money. Ask if you can create whatever sort of
> music you want with the
> >  available tools maybe, but not if you can make
> money using open source
> >  software - that's silly.
> 
> I don't understand why his question is silly. I
> thought it was rather 
> sane and straightforward.

Ditto.

> AFA a musician who's in it for the money or the art:
> well.. that's 
> rather hard to pin down. Who knows which artist is
> "in it for the 
> money"? You certainly can't tell from their music.

Agreed.

> Furthermore, artists must eat,

Nonesense, our musts only include sex and drugs.

 and they always find
> a way to. There are 
> the very few that lock themselves away in a run down
> shack to create 
> their art. That's OK with me, but that ain't the
> norm today. On the flip 
> side, there are plenty of musicians who are in it
> for the art, but their 
> art is not particularly good. And there are
> musicians that are rich and 
> their art is wonderful. Art and money are mutually
> independent.

I can't recall the article but an interviewer asked
Jon Lennon to describe how becoming rich had effected
him as a musician and an artist. He replied by stating
that he writes his songs while sitting in a much
softer chair.

> -- 
> Brad Fuller
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