Seven Ways to Improve the Quality of Music

http://variety.com/2014/voices/opinion/some-ways-to-improve-the-quality-of-music-1201126153/#

Mar. 7, 2014
Bob Lefsetz

1. MUSIC IN SCHOOLS ...

2. PERSPECTIVE Just because you play does not mean you’re entitled to a job in music. With access has come delusion. In other words, if you can put it on iTunes, I should buy it. But if you get a trophy in kiddie soccer, do you think you’re one step away from Manchester City?

You realize in school who’s good in math, biology, English. If you’re not at the top, you find another path.

3. A PLACE TO PLAY ...

4. NO WINE BEFORE ITS TIME Just because you made it does not mean we should be interested in buying it. ...

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6. GATEKEEPERS There’s a fiction that making everything available means there’s an audience for it — the so-called Long Tail. But the truth is we live in a Tower of Babel society that gravitates to that which is universal. ...

7. BUSINESSMEN You’ve got to have someone to make the deals. ...