tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390470473924634382.post7040424692840427512..comments2007-10-12T15:04:09.692-05:00Two girls were leaving Texas...http://www.blogger.com/profile/08440580407286095722noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390470473924634382.post-59219691765805500182007-10-12T00:59:00.000-05:002007-10-12T00:59:00.000-05:00Chasing fame and "success" ain't no fun. When you think that you're almost there, fate pushes you back to where you were meant to be all along. <BR/><BR/>Chasing fame and "success" ain't worth it, because being famous and "successful" has little satisfaction on the day that they put your corpse on the other side of the lawn.<BR/><BR/>The music business is dead. The telegraph killed it. The age of the air waves produced music heroes, then the telegraph snuffed them out by stealing the hearts of people away from the air waves. The Sound of Music sounded best when it was on the air waves, it now seems sterile and lifeless on the telegraph. Lasting music will outlive the music heroes of the past, lasting music survives long after the creators are gone.<BR/><BR/>Good music is never forced, it arrives in its own time. Creativity cannot be manufactured. Creativity does not come from nothing.<BR/><BR/>An artist trying to write well betrays himself. Artists who write well don't try to do so, they simply write well because they were made to write well. Artists don't pay much attention to mainstream because mainstream cannot discern what is art. Mainstream is the mundane, mainstream is the vulgar.<BR/><BR/>The IT that will kill you is not fame, it is not failure, and it is not the languishing in obscurity. The IT that will kill you is the failure to see one's own vanity, the IT that will kill you is the failure to see one's own futility, the IT that will kill you is the failure to see one's own failures.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2390470473924634382.post-13650301757429452852007-09-27T12:17:00.000-05:002007-09-27T12:17:00.000-05:00As an outsider, I too see constant changes in the music industry. I think the main issue is that the song writer wants to write art and the everyday Joe, just wants a good sound. When you're making "art" it's not always what the mainstream wants so sales drop and you've lost your window.<BR/><BR/>I'll tell you what. You keep putting out the CD's and I'll keep buying yours. I've got them all so far and you can sign me up for an autographed version of your next one. And, hopefully, someday I will get to see your show.LJSiliconhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250978533009956475noreply@blogger.com