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Renato Carosone (singer of Tu vuò fà l'americano) quit at his peak: > At the height of his career, Carosone announced his retirement from music in 1960. He fel

Renato Carosone (singer of Tu vuò fà l'americano) quit at his peak: > At the height of his career, Carosone announced his retirement from music in 1960. He felt that the advent of Rock and roll had the consequence of making his swing, big-band sound no longer popular: "I'd rather retire now on the crest of the wave, than being tormented later by the idea of rock and roll wiping away all that I have achieved in so many years of hard work". (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Carosone#Retirement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renato_Carosone#Retirement) That quote has stuck with me.

jonny_eh 4y ago
Reads like narcissism. Who cares how popular your art is, as long as it pays the bills? What else are you going to do with your time?
- serf 4y ago
  >Who cares how popular your art is, as long as it pays the bills? every artist, ever? it's a pretty common idea that artists should embrace the passion for the art rather than 'mundane and earthly reason'. That isn't to say that represents practical reality, but 'artistry' is one of the few categories of human endeavor where passion is encouraged by society to be followed almost to the detriment of the artist themselves. we remember the stories of half-starved artists, stuck & starving on the streets and patroned by kings for one last hurrah ; we tend not to remember the artists stuck in corporate buildings that churn out cartoon cels in order to meet deadlines and quotas.
  - jjulius 4y ago
    >every artist, ever? Hi. Artist here. I don't care about how popular my art is and I never want it to pay the bills.
  - samplatt 4y ago
    >but 'artistry' is one of the few categories of human endeavor where passion is encouraged by society to be followed almost to the detriment of the artist themselves. I'd say that almost everyone that works for a living has an employer that cares more about the work than the employees, to the point of driving the employee as close to the grave as possible without actually dying.
  - TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
    As an aspiring artist I like to do things due to my own passion, but I can't deny that having an audience for a work has some effect on me. If I got used to having one, losing it might be crushing. And for that matter, for some, pleasing an audience is surely a big part of why they do it.

jonny_eh 4y ago

Reads like narcissism. Who cares how popular your art is, as long as it pays the bills? What else are you going to do with your time?

serf 4y ago
>Who cares how popular your art is, as long as it pays the bills? every artist, ever? it's a pretty common idea that artists should embrace the passion for the art rather than 'mundane and earthly reason'. That isn't to say that represents practical reality, but 'artistry' is one of the few categories of human endeavor where passion is encouraged by society to be followed almost to the detriment of the artist themselves. we remember the stories of half-starved artists, stuck & starving on the streets and patroned by kings for one last hurrah ; we tend not to remember the artists stuck in corporate buildings that churn out cartoon cels in order to meet deadlines and quotas.
- jjulius 4y ago
  >every artist, ever? Hi. Artist here. I don't care about how popular my art is and I never want it to pay the bills.
- samplatt 4y ago
  >but 'artistry' is one of the few categories of human endeavor where passion is encouraged by society to be followed almost to the detriment of the artist themselves. I'd say that almost everyone that works for a living has an employer that cares more about the work than the employees, to the point of driving the employee as close to the grave as possible without actually dying.
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y ago
  As an aspiring artist I like to do things due to my own passion, but I can't deny that having an audience for a work has some effect on me. If I got used to having one, losing it might be crushing. And for that matter, for some, pleasing an audience is surely a big part of why they do it.