Comments on: What the Arts Can Learn From NASA Budget Cuts http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/what-the-arts-can-learn-from-nasa-budget-cuts/ The Community for Working Musicians Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amy Saari http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/what-the-arts-can-learn-from-nasa-budget-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-17612 Amy Saari Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:40:28 +0000 http://www.musicianwages.com/?p=3603#comment-17612 Lovely post with terrific advice. We do matter, and we ought to talk like it! Lovely post with terrific advice. We do matter, and we ought to talk like it!

]]> By: Stevie Peek http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/what-the-arts-can-learn-from-nasa-budget-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-3272 Stevie Peek Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:18:25 +0000 http://www.musicianwages.com/?p=3603#comment-3272 oh my gosh! This has made my day! I'm a senior at Prescott high school and im writing my senior paper on arts funding and the budget cuts. So i look it up on yahoo, read a few articles "eh, they're OK" but then i clicked on this one..... this just makes me happy when i read it! I play 4 different clarinets and french horn and want to major in film scoring, so music is my thing. Reading this article is just so awesome! I would just love to see the faces on NASA people that read this and pretty much everyone against the arts. it just makes me happy that someone i don't know has the same feelings towards this situation without having to talk about your feelings like crazy, you gave the facts and that's amazing. Thank you so much for this! Thank you thank you thank you! oh my gosh! This has made my day! I’m a senior at Prescott high school and im writing my senior paper on arts funding and the budget cuts. So i look it up on yahoo, read a few articles “eh, they’re OK” but then i clicked on this one….. this just makes me happy when i read it! I play 4 different clarinets and french horn and want to major in film scoring, so music is my thing. Reading this article is just so awesome! I would just love to see the faces on NASA people that read this and pretty much everyone against the arts. it just makes me happy that someone i don’t know has the same feelings towards this situation without having to talk about your feelings like crazy, you gave the facts and that’s amazing. Thank you so much for this! Thank you thank you thank you!

]]> By: Nick http://www.musicianwages.com/the-working-musician/what-the-arts-can-learn-from-nasa-budget-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-3189 Nick Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:22:48 +0000 http://www.musicianwages.com/?p=3603#comment-3189 Not to go too off topic here, but I live in the same county KSC is located. It's the area of Florida called the Space Coast. Playing locally, the older jazz guys reminisce about what this area was like in the 50s and 60s. Once the space program started taking off, people moved into town from miles, and it was like a neverending party from Canaveral down through Cocoa Beach and even farther south. They talked about how even in high school, they were busy five nights a week and played just about everywhere. Many of those guys lived off of those gigs from that time, and that's all they've done since. Of course, it's not like that any more, but you never think about how much something completely unrelated like NASA can affect your ability to work. And it's really cool to sit and think and imagine what my home was like fifty years ago when America was on top, and we were throwing men on the moon from right here. And a piano player I play with from time to time told me abut how he was down the road jamming at a place in Cocoa Beach when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would walk in and sit down for a burger and a beer. It was their favorite place to eat. Not to go too off topic here, but I live in the same county KSC is located. It’s the area of Florida called the Space Coast. Playing locally, the older jazz guys reminisce about what this area was like in the 50s and 60s.

Once the space program started taking off, people moved into town from miles, and it was like a neverending party from Canaveral down through Cocoa Beach and even farther south. They talked about how even in high school, they were busy five nights a week and played just about everywhere. Many of those guys lived off of those gigs from that time, and that’s all they’ve done since.

Of course, it’s not like that any more, but you never think about how much something completely unrelated like NASA can affect your ability to work. And it’s really cool to sit and think and imagine what my home was like fifty years ago when America was on top, and we were throwing men on the moon from right here. And a piano player I play with from time to time told me abut how he was down the road jamming at a place in Cocoa Beach when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin would walk in and sit down for a burger and a beer. It was their favorite place to eat.

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