True and totally applies to making music these days. What do you think? Do you make music for profit and fame or just “because”? I guess getting girls is far more important than cash and crowds. Ah never mind it’s all the same thing.
“i am 97.2% certain this is written on a bathroom wall somewhere in every single city in the world. …and i kinda love that, in the lamest of ways.” – Fernando
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I don’t know about you, but something about playing with expensive synthesisers every day to make weird music to play at gigs where the soundman just looks at you strangely (“where am I supposed to put THIS?”) and where the groupies are old guys in Moog t-shirts who insist on discussing gearlists ad nauseum with you has to be a labour of love, right? Any financial return on your investment by selling cds or t shirts or getting paid to play or any positive attention of the opposite sex (or whomever) has to be a bonus…
I would think, with some very few exceptions, that musicians make music that someone else would like to listen to and enjoy.
HERE’S THE HIERARCHY:
PASSION FOR THE ART ITSELF > PASSION FOR SOMETHING TO EXPRESS THROUGH THE ART > PASSION FOR SOME NON-BIOLOGICAL THING TO GAIN THROUGH PRODUCING THE ART (money, glory, etc…) > FOR THE CHICKS
Basically, if you do it for the girls, you’re working too, too hard just to get laid.
I think that most of the musicians make music for them self and dont care if others like or enjoy it, at least this is the way it works for me
I make music because it amazes me that it’s even possible. And because I like to encourage people to dance.
I actually think that writing on toiled walls is indeed done for critical acclaim, but that’s just me.