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On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Jim Dufresne. I'm here to tell you about how to
make a living playing music. In a nutshell, and I'm going to go right to the crux of the
matter, is this is America, and in this country we provide services, and in exchange for these
services we are renumerated, in most cases with money, but sometimes we're paid off in
other things. So therefore you have to provide a service that somebody wants. Now, some people
will go out and stand on a street corner and they'll play their songs. Songs they wrote,
songs written by other people. And they'll entertain passers by. And depend on their
gratuities. And, you know what, some people do really well at that. For example, in New
York City and Chicago they have people that play in the subways, and they actually have
to go out and get a permit to do that, because it's so lucrative. They'll play saxophone,
they'll play the violin, they'll play the guiter, they'll play in the subway, they'll
open the guitar case up and people will throw money in, and they'll make more money than
a country lawyer. So, that's quite lucrative.