We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
I think the music business is probably not happy with what we've done, because the people buying the record have actually got to pick what they want to buy, rather than being told what they should buy.
I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.
I set out to create a means whereby music could be a way of vindicating the rights of the masses.
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.
Recorded music is more a marketing tool than a revenue source.
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Music and philanthropy have a long, benevolent relationship with one another. Record bins are rife with charity singles, and concert history is filled with benefit shows for every imaginable cause. Musicians like to give back.
Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
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