Re: should musicians have a second job?

[buzap@gmx.net]

Here is my observation:
_All_ people I know who make a decent living as a professional, full-time 
musician fulfill the following:
- They got a solid music education early in their life, proficiently 
playing instruments way before turning 10 years.
- They come from a family with a musicianship background or established in 
some sort of art.
- They have been well connected in an artistic network already in their 
youth.
- They had a musical certification already in school.
- They have studied their musical field in a well-known institution, with 
well-known teachers.
- Most of them won an award as a teen or early twen.
- All of them collaborated with the best musicians in the world within 
their musical domain in their early 20s.

So my take is:
Unless you fulfill this criteria or catch up with it until you're ca. 25 
years old, it will be very very hard to make a decent living as a 100% 
musician your whole life.

This doesn't mean you can't be incredibly creative, inspire a lot of 
people, be a pioneer in the musical domain. I just think it's hard to 
sustain a life-long, full-time living in music without the foundation 
described above.

best regards
Buzap

PS: these people are all in classical music or jazz, btw. I don't know how 
it is for punk rock or hip-hop artists - but will punk or hip-hop be 
around to feed you for 50+ years? ;-)



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