why i will never take money for my music

If you are involved in making art of any kind, you are involved in an activity of leisure. Art is not work. Paintings, poems, or musical compositions — these things do not put food on anyone's table, or a roof over anyone's head. This is a reason why I will never take money for my music.

When pieces of art (or reproductions of them) are bought and sold, our encounters with them are transactions. Art becomes a luxury object, instrumentally used for the self-aggrandizement of those who pay for access to it. I see no ethically valid approach for the artist in this arrangement. And I would quit making music straight away if I thought it had no ethical, and political, potential. This is a reason why I will never take money for my music.