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

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Brad Fuller 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.
>
> 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.

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.

> 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.
>



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