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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.women,net.music
Subject: Re: Madonna's despicably harmful manipulative trashy image
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Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 13:18:44 EDT
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> > Good thing you're not in music. You'd be starving.
>
> Probably, but at least I'd be doing something worthwhile -- which is
> MUCH more important to me than financial reward.  It's cretins like
> Madonna that make it impossible for many true and genuinely creative
> artists to make a decent living at their art.

Actually this has been a common problem throughout history.  Most of the
historically "great" artists have managed to survive, not by popular
support, but most often by their having some benefactor: in the past, some
king or person of nobility who sponsored them (I believe many of the great
composers were in this category); or recently, some wealthy person who
considered their work sufficiently worthwhile to buy it from them with
regularity to make up a collection (Andrew Wyeth (a painter) is an example
of this).

The popular tastes have always tended to be superficial and transient; this
is a sad thing, but true.  It is only recently that by appealing to a
large number of people could you earn great wealth.
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