"American popular music is our only art form. It's our most important export, period. And since time began, it's been handled not as an art form but as a commodity. I mean, all records are the same price. Books are different prices, paintings are different prices, wine is different prices, but all music is the same [...] price.
"[In the past] music was integrated, but society was segregated. Today, society is integrated, but music is segregated. And that's not a good thing. Information is segregated. If you're a right-winger, you know there's a bunch of shows you can watch where nobody disagrees with you. If you're a left-winger, there are other shows, nobody disagrees with you. Not healthy. Not good."
These pertinent remarks come from an unlikely source, Huey Lewis of The Power of Love fame. We don't pay the same for a bottle of Chassagne-Montrachet as we do for a bottle of Cahors, so why should a CD by the London Symphony Orchestra be sold at the same price as one by, for example, Huey Lewis?
His second point is a good one, too.
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