8 Sep
2005
8 Sep
'05
3:34 p.m.
Brad Fuller wrote:
On 07:40 PM Dave Robillard wrote:
You can't? Me neither.
Is britney spears, and the producers that make her songs in it for the
money? Who can tell. It's hard. :-P
c.
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.
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. Furthermore, artists must eat, 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.