By the way, is disengenious actually a word or did you mean disengenuous? …oh, and you misspelled pedagogue. Does this mean I’m a future pedagogue myself?
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This always seems like a slightly disengenious statement to me and, indeed, you contradict it yourself three paragraphs later:

” You may not break even on record sales but, if all goes well, you may make a living off of performances, royalties, and some teaching.” (yeah I corrected the spelling mistake. I’m a pedegogue. Deal with it).

I made myself rather unpopular on a certain jazz discussion board a few years back by saying “show me a jazz musician without a day job, a teaching gig, an indulgent,employed spouse, or a private income, and I’ll show you someone who lives in a cardboard box in the park.”

I think I may have followed this with some sort of addendum like “unless your name is Marsalis.” However, having subsequently made the aquaintance of a Marsalis or two, I’m in a position to know that even with that surname it may occasionally be necessary to do the odd highschool clinic to keep the wolf from the door.