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What? And give up Show Business?!

Yes. Quite easily, in fact. There seems to be a general public consensus that certain occupations just don’t allow for people to gracefully exit. Musicians, for example. Any time I tell people that I have retired from the music business, I get the same wide-eyed response. “Really? But I bet you miss it. They say …

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Why should anyone pay anything for music ever?

Oh Lord, not this again. Speaking as someone whose sole income has been derived from performing/arranging/recording/teaching music for the past thirty years, I’m hardly impartial on the issue.  It seems like a no-brainer, right?  Commerce is based on the exchange of money for goods and services. But the onslaught of technology has now brought every …

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