Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
Why would that be relevant? His focus is not writing songs for others, though he's had success doing that, but rather for himself as an artist who writes his own material and produces it as well. He'd be a different person if he didn't perform so his answer wouldn't matter.

By the way, I know lots of people making a living making music who are JPF members and are not famous. I wonder what empirical data you have used to determine only 20 people in your state make a living making music? I am pretty in tune with the musician and writer world and I couldn't come up with such a low number without a lot of quality data and knowledge of ALL genres of music and who is doing work in all of those. It's a grim projection of what is going on, but I feel like folks may not realize all that is going on out there. I am confident there are more than 20 people in your state making a full time living doing nothing but music. I'll be happy to explain how I come to my conclusion, if you can first give me your data and process for determining the number 20. (And also: how you came to the number of 2000 people who are "serious" musicians)?

Brian


Tom was the one who came up with 20, not me.

I said one out of a hundred. And an arbitrary number to give a idea of how many of the working musicians are making full time livings from music

That would be 80,000 out of the 8 million people in our state, I know they aint all musicians but still, way more than 20.

Firstly youd have define "living" 20 k, 30 k, 40 k 50 k, all the money at once, once a week, once a month etc, then taxes.

I ask Jody, because he is a proponent of this idea, if he is making a living with his songwriting, he is a rare bird indeed.

I honestly doubt he lives off his cd sales.

I know people making a living with music, but it's not one thing they do. And it has never been, somebody makes album, sells it. Never as easy as that

But again, more power to anyone. Im not sure why folks are so resistant to giving music away free, when trying to sell it, nobody will even see it.

Last edited by December Rock Star; 11/15/12 08:15 PM.