--- Brad Fuller <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > (408) 799-6124 > ** Sonaural Audio Studios ** > (408) 799-6123 West San Jose > (408) 799-6124 Cambrian > ________________________________ > Hear us online: www.Sonaural.com > > ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/
