29/08/2026
"The economics of it have always been really hard," Eddie Schwartz says.
"It’s always been a nickel-and-dime business. Royalties come in dribs and drabs. But if you can put them all together, you can have a middle-class living, which was amazing to me, that I could actually support myself, not lavishly but comfortably as a songwriter, at that time. It’s so much harder now with streams; it can be pizza money. But there’s a lot to be said in terms of the freedom you have as an artist.
"You don’t have a label necessarily dictating what you should be writing, and you’re not looking for that one single that’s going to break you on the radio. But it’s still very hard to support yourself and to sustain yourself as a music creator these days, and that’s a shame, because people are still making a lot of money from the music that we create as songwriters and artists. We just don’t seem to be getting very much of it, and that’s problematic and not getting any better."
