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Originally Posted by Automatic Slim
Actually, I come down more on the side of musicians who consider themselves primarily 'entertainers'. There is little honor in being a 'starving artist'.
I'm also coming at this issue from the standpoint of a graphic artist (who finally got a real job  ) who has debated similar topics with artists who think that 'art' is all-important, and think 'the public be damned'. |
i'll bang on about artistic integrity all night but f*ck me if i'd ever try and make a living off of it. At the end of the day be it art or entertainment it still has to go through the same system, 'it' is a product in demand and supply needs to be met. And the artists you talk to sound like c*nts, art should be for everybody, and if 'everybody' is too dense (through years of morning radio and tv propaganda) to interpret somebody else's art then that's a few less jumped-up armchair critics in the world.