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Originally Posted by Engine
I can see where you're coming from and I don't think it's wrong. But wouldn't you love your art / profession more if you could create whatever you wanted and be paid the same amount for it as by making stuff that other people tell you to make?
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Sure. But I'm perfectly happy to simply have an occupation that I not only enjoy but I feel is "my calling" in a way.
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Originally Posted by Engine
But that's beside the point because commercial artists are not sell-outs they are artists who make money by satisfying the needs of other people who have money to spend.
Musicians who begin by making whatever music they want but then are put in a position where they are expected to reach certain budget numbers by making music they don't want to make (or 'changing it a little bit') end up shooting themselves in the head and I can see why
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I see your point, but I think adapting to your audience has been a part of all forms of art since people first started making art. Michelangelo knew that when he was painting the Sistine Chapel. James Brown knew it when he was making music to move butts. This notion that artists should make "pure" art, isolated from the influence of their audience is a pretty recent invention and is kind of at odds with the role of art over the millennia of human history.