There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.
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Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
We have to show support for artists who are trying to own things for themselves.
You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.
Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.