Does an 'artist' REALLY HAVE to do it all?

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@JohnOnKeyz

@Paul Woodlock

Treating Art like some business commodity, which the discussion above is doing is something I am increasingly finding distasteful. Not your post conman, nothing wrong with that, btu the capitalist nature of the whole subject.

I am starting to come around to that same decision. I would still like to make an effort submitting music for media, but I am losing interest in anything pop, commercial, adult contemporary… genres that tend to fade in credibility and effort for arts sake. I’ll be writing music for music’s sake, and if it fits a publishers request, then it’s cool. But forcing myself to do something that doesn’t support the art of it… well it has been giving me an unpleasant feeling, and honestly, has damaged my love for music to some degree. I’ll “heal” from that, but it will take some time to really love writing again.

Ha!

Hi John

I knew your post rang a bell - you’d done determined soul searching on this one.
I had a good time re-reading this thread of yours:

Umstieg auf Mac 8 Core Vor und Nachteile

On the basis of this I am looking up at the topic-title, and coming up with the following questions:

Does an artist have to be an ‘artist’ - does the prime creator have to ‘take it somewhere’, to confirm status to his product and himself?

Is a mother less of a good mother unless her child ‘does well’ in the big world?

Is her status less if she sends the child to school rather than home-educating?

How fit is the ‘mother-child’ analogy for this discussion?