The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

As music becomes less of a thing--a cylinder, a cassette, a disc--and more ephemeral, perhaps we will begin to assign an increasing value to live performances again.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

I'm afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same