Busking Quotes:

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

- Glen Hansard

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

topic: Singing, Songwriting, Wells, Personality Types, Busking

As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

- Glen Hansard

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

topic: Song, Self, Play, Self Consciousness, Busking

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

topic: Fun, Musician, Done, Busking

Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did.

- Bruce Springsteen

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: New York, Artist, Jigsaw Puzzles, Jigsaw, Puzzle Piece

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.

- Glen Hansard

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

topic: Art, Jobs, Law, Little Money, Busking

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.

- Madeleine Peyroux

topic: Real, Live Life, Past, Real Deep, Busking

I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the same. After six months of living on the streets [in Camden], I started singing, busking.

- Benjamin Clementine

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Singing, Months, Six, Camden, Busking