The writer, who creates, keeps the fuel in the fire of the music business, gives meaning to what the audience actually accepts and hears, is the most important cog in the music machine and guides what the public eventually accepts as a good song is not paid for but robbed by the corporate licensing agent.

This is true of the recording companies as well.

The artist is the lowest on the totem pole regardless of the myth that a star or writer is on top. Many leaches in the music biz are bleeding the artist dry.