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 HansardSometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
Glen HansardI only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.
Glen HansardIf you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
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