When I look at how fortunate I've been, being a musician... my response to being overpaid is that I should pay it back to my community in some way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.
The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.
The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.
This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music.
I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.
Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.
I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song.
Aren't we all striving to be overpaid for what we do?