Feed the Hungry – Heal the Thought
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009I read an article yesterday written by ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams, a man of many talents. Speaking out against the world’s seeming new idiotic ideas regarding free music, I believe he spoke for all of us who are involved on the creative side of music today.
Here are excerpts from the editorial entitled “The Creative Constant” that appeared in the September 12 issue of Billboard Magazine.
“I’ve been writing songs for most of my life. I know firsthand the many challenging steps it takes for a song to reach a wide audience of people. In the early years of my forty-plus years of writing I benefited from the care and expertise of a world class publisher, a record company that fostered the dreams and creative choices of their artists, and a publicity/promotion machine that made the consumers aware of what I had to offer. For many talented young writers beginning their careers today the landscape has changed dramatically.
