robotgoogle said:
for the certain standard you are talking about... there should be no standard.
music is art and art should not have any standard. if there is a standard then all of us will sound the same. yuck.
It is not wrong to ask to be paid. It is not about profit.
It does not degrade you and your musicality.
What you say is very contradictory. If there is no standard, any tom, dick or harry can take some sticks and hit it together to make some form of noise, and call that music, and demand to be paid.
Music can be seen as another form of product, if its good many will buy it, if it's lousy, little or no one will want it at all.
So you think that you are very artsy fartsy, and your music is fantastic. But that does not matter at all, if the rest think that you suck.
You asking for money, of course its about profit. The way you put it, it's like you are very high up on the pedestal, you are heaven send is it?? Make money means make money, no need to mask it upon some 'greater good', sound just like NKF saga.
Money will lead to moral and principal decline, because people pay money for what they want to hear, not what you want to play. Get that right!!
End of day, if you are really good, and you ask for money, people will likely pay you. If you suck, just accept that fact, you will have the same happiness and satisfaction as the other john. No need to be a sour puss.
