[Dixielandjazz] Why We Play Jazz Music

[Elazar Brandt]

Shalom Larry,

No argument with you on these points. As I tried to clarify in my reply to
Steve, I meant when you have financial considerations overriding the artistic
ones, as in when you have non-musician accountants, lawyers and management
people telling you how and what to play to make more money, then the art
suffers.

My other point was not so much that selling one's art is a crime against the
arts, but merely that people don't usually become artists or musicians for the
money as their primary objective. There are so many easier ways to make money,
and so few musos who ever reach the point of being able to quit the day job.
Usually the urge to create/play is the driving force, and not the desire for
money. If one achieves both, G-d bless him!

Elazar

> -----Original Message-----
> From: LARRY'S Signs and Large Format Printing [mailto:sign.guy at charter.net]
>
> Tell that to Leonardo Da Vinci.  I think he sold his art.  Duh! people pay
> for art.  No one compromises anything by selling their art.  Zillions are
> made every day by the record companies and the artists who make them.
>
> You have to make choices.