Thanks for the wisdom Rosanne -Rosanne Cash For those of you who keep telling me that artists should work for free for the sheer joy of creation: Youve been watching too many operas about starving artists who die before their time and are glorified for it. Do you pay your plumber? Your kids teacher? Your mechanic? Your grocer? If art and music are not important to you, by all means, dont buy them. If they are, then PAY for them, as you do everything else in your life that you require for physical or spiritual sustenance. Yes, people will always create. I have spent 35 years of hard work, with a bone-crunching schedule, to achieve some level of mastery over what I do. It took me almost two years to make my last record, and I had to pay bills during that time. It is my profession, not my hobby. I do not participate in the notion that music should be free, until tech companies who use our work as a loss leader also work for free, and until the CEOs of those companies stop taking home millions of dollars in ad revenues which they make by using the work of songwriters and musicians as bait.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:32:02 +0000
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