Desire Inspires
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I like giving my music for free. I dont do it out of nessecity, on the contrary, I had many chanses of going "commercial". But, I feel that giving away art in general is the most proper way to deal with it.
I mean, lets cut to the chase: art is expressing your thoughts and emotions and dreams and fears and sharing them with the world. If everytinhg would be 100% commercialised, that would mean that the poorest people could not afford the luxury of hearing what you have to say. So you are left out sharing your thoughts with only the richer parts of the society. But I dont want to share my ideas with them, at least not exclusively.
I want to share my views with the people of the struggle, the working class people. Those that create the whole world and are still left with nothing.
Of course that view has some limitations, low budget, hard to push your music to bigger audiences, but I have been blessed in that issue. If not with my personall carreer, when I was with my old band we managed to become one of the biggest bands in Greece even though we were DIY strictly anti-commercial. Never did an interview for mainstream media, never had our records and gigs covered by them, but still managed to play to the whole country and fill every place we did and be as big as every mainstream artist. It is 10 times harder to do everything, but at the end of the day, you know that everything you achieved its on you and the people that are close to you. Not someone that could give a rats ass about you but he is being paid to do so, so he does.
I know that most of the people in here just want to become pros and **** everything else. I m not saying that going pro is a bad thing. But I think we have to always remember what the essence is in all that. And keeping your music as close as it can be is not a part of it I think.
That's just an opinion.
You are awesome!