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Originally Posted by Patric_Bernard  So you guys are telling me that if you didn't get paid you wouldn't play at all? If I had a chance to play a gig with people there who wanted to see me, and I wasn't being paid... I'd give them a damn good show. Who cares if you not getting paid one gig here, or one gig there. Music is for the joy in playing. People who play music for the sole purpose of making money are sell outs. |
So...........every professional musician is a sell out. You would have us work for charitable donations because we love what we do? Artists should not be paid? Musicians passing the hat at Symphony Hall. At the Met, singers, dancers and musicians working for the door. Stagehands would have to be paid a salary because they don't love what they're doing. Free recordings over the internet made by starving artists. How would musicians live? They would have to go to work like all the non-musicians who love all the free music being made.
We could go back to the 18th century and have Patrons.
Music is fun..............
I love music. My landlord loves money. How can I convince him to accept a song or two for rent. My grocer is tone-deaf.
Oh...............I live in New York City.
Wilmer