Busking Quotes

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)
Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. View quote
Glen Hansard
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. View quote
Glen Hansard
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. View quote
Madeleine Peyroux