Quiet, Successful Careers

I just read the following in an interview with Glen Phillips in this month's Acoustic Guitar magazine:

Phillips decision to release Mr. Lemons on his own label came after several years of making demos and shopping them to major labels. "When getting signed becomes your job, you're no longer a musician," he says. "My job needs to be making music. That makes me happier than just about anything." Lauding relatively under-the-radar bands like Over the Rhine and the Decemberists for taking production into their own hands and not waiting around for the business to recognize them, Phillips says a rewarding life in music doesn't have to be based on "big hype and lots of dollars. It's about having quiet, successful careers."

Indeed.
J