Peter Mulvey on making it as an indie musician, 2003

I just do the thing you can’t replace with anything else: I play music live, for real, in rooms, with people. That’s what I do with most of my time. I think the reason that [indie music] is thriving is because the more mainstream music scene is getting further and further away from that. So you can move a lot of records by having a video with like a chase with spaceships and stuff, but ultimately, it’s just unsatisfying. It’s like you are whipping up this giant soufflé but it isn’t made of anything, and what we do is just food. That’s it.

From a story on the indie music business for NPR's All Things Considered

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