Replying to a message of Ardith Hinton to Gord Hannah:

 AH> Hi, Gord!  Recently you wrote in a message to Dallas Hinton:

 GH>>  Are you saying a musician does not mature and does not
 GH>>  make any money? Hmmmm, could be true.

 AH>           It's a bit of self-deprecating humour, like my oncology
 AH> parent jokes. When some starry-eyed teenager tells me they want to be
 AH> a professional musician I say "That's nice.  What are you going to do
 AH> for a living?"  The vast majority of musicians are *not* rock stars,
 AH> and the income they earn from music alone is below poverty level.  I
 AH> know because I married one....

One of my dad's brothers was a professional musician.  He and his family were
always dirt poor; didn't even own a car - in California, no less - they walked or
took the bus when they had the money.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+