It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.
As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.
I'll be honest, watching the music industry collapse has been demoralizing and disheartening at times.
I feel like the rap metal at the end of the 1990s destroyed rock music for everybody and suddenly everybody felt like they had to apologise for being in rock bands. People suddenly felt bad about wanting to reach massive audiences and the sense of theatre, that we have in our live show, became something to avoid.
I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.
The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.
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