mythalez: absolutely agree

austere: an individual choice

London Underground’s buskers are selected after auditions. Even so not all are good. Some are awful although I always feel bad for the extremely skinny, clearly quite old woman whose legs are thinner than my wrists (now you have seen me you know what that means!) who has very little talent and never has any money in her guitar case. She plays in Charing Cross.

The public in general is generous and even if busy, since we can hear the music for a few metres either side. people drop between 10p and £2 into the musician’s hat or guitar/ violin case. This in my view is a real market experiment which is brutal but realistic.

Perhaps Joshua Bell should be grateful for the hype, sorry, marketing, machinery that enables him to collect $100 a seat? The public it seems has different ideas.

and as about the experiment, sometimes art is recognisable only in the right setting :p .. btw it also shows that most commoners cant distinguish between normal music and so called great music anyway. in summary, beauty lies in the eye/ear of the beholder/whatever .f i you think you are expected to appreciate it, you would!

But how much will you carry and how far?

Well, I have read somewhere that a human being’s character changes psychologically, every 7 years. That came as a surprise to me when I first heard it. But when I reminisce now, the revelation awes me.

Well, every individual, talented or untalented, craves attention or so Maslow puts in his hierarchy of needs. If he person says he doesn’t crave recognitions, it means it has worked out negatively for him. When you dont get what you want, a positive feeling becomes a negative one. They are indifferent to recognition, but psychologically, crave it! That’s the way things work. So, I guess this artist would have been a bit unhappy, about the insipid response!