What would one expect anywhere in the Western world at rush-hour? If the musician had been playing in a park at the week’s end, where people have leisure to play with their children and feed the ducks, he would have attracted a greater audience. As it is the people who really enjoy his music are prepared to pay.
Others – the vast majority I suspect – prefer to listen to the noise that is called popular music.
What would one expect anywhere in the Western world at rush-hour? If the musician had been playing in a park at the week’s end, where people have leisure to play with their children and feed the ducks, he would have attracted a greater audience. As it is the people who really enjoy his music are prepared to pay.
Others – the vast majority I suspect – prefer to listen to the noise that is called popular music.