Personally, I haven't directly received a lot of these grants. My first one was in 2000. I can't actually remember the specific amount, but I think it was around $15,000. Because of the success of how that grant helped that particular project, I didn't need to rely on this grant as much as maybe some people do. But the thing for me is that I started a record label that is focused on promoting creative music and I am now promoting other artists.
Since 2007, in this company that I run, 75% of the recordings have been funded by this grant. Probably 30, 40, or 50 musicians have received funding from this grant. I don't know the exact amount, but it is not a lot of money. The amount of money that it is has changed all these musicians' lives forever and has created music that will last, as Gary says, for the next hundred years.
These recordings will sell the same amount fifty years from now as they do today, because they're not driven by current trends or new, hip movements.