Phillip Glass was a taxi driver and half of his contemporaries in NY did removals. Loads of these composers are extremely successful AND I've never heard an interview where he talks about how insanely horrible it was/he was entitled to do something else. This isn't going to work for everyone and many of these kinds of jobs are not around anymore so people should be supported to make art and music (e.g. ubi or patrons/foundations).
H/w I can't stand the current hipster bs around "pure" artists and muscians (e.g. I only show at X or I'm an IDM genius since I was eight etc). It's very silly and enforces an artificial scarcity that's not good for anyone. You don't have to be a pure artist to be successful, there is no such thing.
H/w I can't stand the current hipster bs around "pure" artists and muscians (e.g. I only show at X or I'm an IDM genius since I was eight etc). It's very silly and enforces an artificial scarcity that's not good for anyone. You don't have to be a pure artist to be successful, there is no such thing.