Notes,

I agree with you 100%.

But if your reply was based on an interpretation of my last post that you believe indicated I don't think you are an artist AND a performer, then apparently I did not communicate my thoughts effectively.

I hoped it would be commonly agreed that music is art.

The point of my post was to differentiate the choices made when somebody fuses art and business, as opposed to art for art's sake alone. For convenience's sake I referred to the two groups in overly simplified terms. My mistake, sorry if my communication style was misleading.

I started out in a fine arts program until a counselor pointed out that if I actually want to illustrate for books, magazines etc I should probably be in the commercial art curriculum instead of the fine arts curriculum. Art for arts sake is wide open in the way you approach it, but art for commercial applications requires specific additional skills that are typically not covered in the fine arts programs.

And so it is with music.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0