When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.
Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you.
People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.
Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
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.
I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.
I care about being able to play. If you're playing with integrity in the music, then that's what matters. But it wasn't that great for me because it was kinda like going back into the old times without the guy.
When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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