I'm Lee Jones, this blog is about me :D . It's my diary. I talk about my hatred for injustice and unfairness. I talk about my experiences in this nasty music business. I talk about egos. I talk about pathetic little men who seem to be everywhere. I talk about my basketball days, and even my little league baseball days. I don't talk about family, being that I have no family to speak of. It's just me, and I'm more than ok with that.
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Not Quite Folk This Time
This one is by the great Johnny Cash. My homage to one of the greatest country artists who ever lived.
Ok, great, but reality is what it is, "Spirit", "Love of music or poetry", those things don't pay the rent or buy food. People paid Johnn Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Gabby Pahinui, and many others for their music, so if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. Yes, I want the money that my music can bring - if that makes me a bad person, then I'm a fucking bad person - and I'll wear it proudly. People are happy to pay for something that brings them pleasure - so they might as well pay me. This is not a perfect world, I don't get to dictate anything, all I have is to do what I do, and try to get what I earn. Once again, if that makes me a bad person, I'll wear it proudly.
Ok, you may not have been talking about me directly, but I think you're saying there is something wrong with selling art, and I'm part of that group of people who sells their art. Yes, it's too bad that there is so much bad art out there for sale, but that's a whole 'nother subject. I only know of one way to make a living, one way to pay for my existence - that is to make music. Mike Tyson made a lot of money for fighting because it was all he knew, and because he loved doing it, it's the same for me - except for the lots of money part. I will agree that there are a lot of people who don't care about true art, and I hope that someday a way is found to keep crappy, phony art out of the public's sight - but until then, I will continue to be offended by false hype, and by the belief that there is something wrong with selling my art.
Ha hah, not at all, you can sell what you want-BTW I think your songwriting is great. I was thinking more in this kind of cheap lyrics, which I swear I cannot call poetry or art at all: "This is the beat that make you shake your rump That make your booty go ba-bump, ba-bump It's that beat that make ya bump ya bump (ohh)" :D
Loved it! Kris Kristofferson is really a great songwriter!
ReplyDeleteOne of the greatest. They don't make 'em like Kris anymore.
DeleteI think sonwriters need to be poets, spirit of poetry; nowadays nobody cares about poetry but money, -easy money.
ReplyDeleteOk, great, but reality is what it is, "Spirit", "Love of music or poetry", those things don't pay the rent or buy food. People paid Johnn Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Gabby Pahinui, and many others for their music, so if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for me. Yes, I want the money that my music can bring - if that makes me a bad person, then I'm a fucking bad person - and I'll wear it proudly. People are happy to pay for something that brings them pleasure - so they might as well pay me. This is not a perfect world, I don't get to dictate anything, all I have is to do what I do, and try to get what I earn. Once again, if that makes me a bad person, I'll wear it proudly.
DeleteI wasn´t talking about you :(
ReplyDeleteOk, you may not have been talking about me directly, but I think you're saying there is something wrong with selling art, and I'm part of that group of people who sells their art. Yes, it's too bad that there is so much bad art out there for sale, but that's a whole 'nother subject. I only know of one way to make a living, one way to pay for my existence - that is to make music. Mike Tyson made a lot of money for fighting because it was all he knew, and because he loved doing it, it's the same for me - except for the lots of money part. I will agree that there are a lot of people who don't care about true art, and I hope that someday a way is found to keep crappy, phony art out of the public's sight - but until then, I will continue to be offended by false hype, and by the belief that there is something wrong with selling my art.
DeleteHa hah, not at all, you can sell what you want-BTW I think your songwriting is great. I was thinking more in this kind of cheap lyrics, which I swear I cannot call poetry or art at all: "This is the beat that make you shake your rump
DeleteThat make your booty go ba-bump, ba-bump
It's that beat that make ya bump ya bump (ohh)"
:D