Busking Quotes

• Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.

  Glen Hansard

  Reading, Past, Cities

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

  Glen Hansard

  Song, Self, Play

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

  Glen Hansard

  Singing, Songwriting, Wells

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're so good.

  Andrew Bird

  Fun, Musician, Done

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

  Bruce Springsteen

  New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

  Glen Hansard

  Art, Jobs, Law

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Real, Live Life, Past

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• I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.

  Benjamin Clementine

  Singing, Months, Six

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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