No offense to Armen, but being a "grammy nominated artist" isn't saying much judging from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Winn

No offense to Armen, but being a "grammy nominated artist" isn't saying much judging from this list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Winners_and_nominees http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56th_Annual_Grammy_Awards#Winne... I can't even count how many nominees there are on that page. And that's just for 2014. I have friends who play in various bands every other week in front of live audiences and guess how much they make? It's in the range of ~$20 each per night. And that's for about 6-7 hours of "work". Or about ~$3 per hour. "The horror! They are certainly getting swindled!" I can hear you shouting now. They have to load/unload all of their equipment into a van which takes about an hour. They have to spend $20 or $30 driving their gas guzzler to/fro the bar that's booked them for the night. Spending another hour in travel time as you don't want to take any sharp corners or hit any pot holes with $5,000 worth of musical instruments in the back. They spend about an hour setting up their equipement themselves, testing accoustics and such. And then they play for a solid 3-4 hours. For $20 compensation. Oh, and I forgot that they also get together and practice for about 8 hours every week on top of that. But that's O.K. because they all have full time jobs and they just really love to write and play music for people. That's why you should be making or playing music imho, for other people's ears and your own enjoyment. Not to write a few diddy's in the hopes of making a killer profit.