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Oh yeah, I personally believe there are basically two kinds of musician described in your question but there is, of course, lots of grey:

a) Musicians who love to create are, IMHO, more emotionally oriented in their musical endeavours.

b) Musicians who are motivated by the "business of music" approach it from a more intellectual perspective: "What does it take to sell songs?" and they work from there.


Wise words Lawrie. Music that's created for the sole purpose of selling records is going to be dumbed down to some formulaic concept in order to achieve the goal of selling records.

That's probably one of the reasons I love acoustic music so much. Acoustic artists know they're not going to get rich playing acoustic music so they just write and play the best music they can with no consideration for commercial appeal and hope the small number of acoustic fans notice their dedication to creating good music.

It works for me as a fan of good music.

Bob
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