![]() Firstly he was able to shake the debris of The Jam from his shoes and inaugurate the Style Council. This wealth tempered ironically with Weller's socialist principles has produced a number of good things. His gifts as songwriter and guitar player would comply with the various creative criteria by which musicians are judged but he has certainly made money from making music. "That's what I understand by the term musician."īy this definition Paul Weller is a musician. ![]() "It's a fact that if you make money from making music then you are a musician," concludes Talbot. So the term musician is no longer a dirty one? You can develop in ways that you don't even appreciate yourself." "You may reach a peak as a musician but you develop and learn all the time if you stay in it. "Although you develop anyway," adds Talbot. There's been much more of an incentive for me to come up to standard." That's probably because I've worked with Mick and Steve White who are both really good musicians. "I definitely take myself more seriously as a musician these days. "I suppose it depends a lot on your definition of the word but I am a musician," decides Weller. Breakfast with the Style Council was a strange enough notion but nobody had expected to get into elementary musical existentialism before the croissants. Weller furrows his brow and munches thoughtfully on his toast, Talbot sips his tea and suddenly looks very old.
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