1.   A poet must write poetry and a musician must make music - or they will never be happy.

2.   And since few other musicians are making it, he records it himself.

3.   Because the debt is paid out of the small royalty that musicians make, most acts never see a penny from their record sales.

4.   After the ruling in this closely followed case, musicians everywhere made joyful, fully deductible sounds.

5.   But musicians make their living selling a hip veneer to their listeners.

6.   Competent musicians might have made something out of passing moments of this piece, but the Bayer players produce a full hour of raging musical nothingness.

7.   Digital distribution allows musicians to make their newest work available instantly worldwide.

8.   From Dionne Farris and Seal to Bad Brains and Jeffrey Gaines, black musicians are making their own brand of alternative music.

9.   If a musician can make it there, in that hotbed of musical culture and tradition, you might think, he or she can make it anywhere.

10.   In some ways, their songs are one of the most musically valid responses white musicians have made to hip-hop since its inception.