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Artie Shaw was another guy who walked away from fame, and he was a lot bigger than Tom Lehrer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw https://en.wikipedia.or
by AlbertCory 2y ago
Artie Shaw was another guy who walked away from fame, and he was a lot bigger than Tom Lehrer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artie_Shaw
Gerry Rafferty (probably more commercially successful than Lehrer, at least) also didn't like the business or performing aspects of music.
Bill Murray said (paraphrasing), "I always say to someone who wants to be rich and famous, 'try being rich first, and see if that doesn't get you 90% of what you want.' Being famous is a 24-hour-a-day job."
- vmfunction 2y ago>Being famous is a 24-hour-a-day job. That's why, people whom are smart and/or lazy won't touch it.
- aidenn0 2y agoBill Withers hated working with the record labels so much he walked away from Columbia and quit touring, though he had about a dozen years from when he won his first Grammy to walking away. He attributed his ability to walk away to being older than most (early 30s) when his first hit was released.