We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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Making music, if you're a real musician, you carry on regardless in this world.
No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.
Being a musician is what I do, but it's not what I am.
There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.
The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.
We don't make music - it makes us.
Music isn't only a profession.
Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
There's more to being a musician than just making music.