theMattSmith

danielholter:

littletinyfish:

…in regards to my previous post:

• Licensing your music to a commercial outlet doesn’t inherently make the music worse, and often music is resilient enough to overcome the commercial message. But under certain circumstances the music and message become inescapably intertwined. And of course those circumstances and opinions may vary.
• Though I design web banner ads, I have never, nor will I ever, design one of those horrifying ab and tooth ads, any ad that mentions Obama and Mom’s in the same sentence, or any ad that uses sexy women to sell utterly useless products.

A man’s gotta know his limitations.

It’s all opinion.

One man’s pretension is another man’s integrity.

If you charge a single penny for your “art” you’re a “sell out.”  I’m thrilled I was fortunate enough to find companies to pay me for music years ago.  The idea of sitting in an abandoned warehouse living in squalor so I could remain pure and unadulterated in my “ahhhhrt” is absolutely abhorrent to me, and, I think, a rather childish, if dreamy, notion.

End of the day, if you can make a living doing the stuff you used to do for free, you’re livin’ the dream.