The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think one of the reasons musicians keep doing what they do and writers keep doing what they do, is that we're totally unsuited for anything else. And I for one am much too lazy.
If a musician is making a mediocre, self-indulgent body of work, they have to know that, for the most part, people aren't going to be interested.
When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.
Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.
This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level.
A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like.
I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.