From the essay Music on the Corner by Amanda Witt:
...Live music played by amateurs is an offering. They aren't expecting to make a fortune off it; they aren't marketing it. They love something, and they offer it to us in hopes that we will love it, too.
They can only offer us this thing they love by investing themselves in it, so musicians--and especially amateur musicians--make themselves vulnerable in a way that we seldom see these days, in an age when children isolate themselves behind headphones and video games, adults hide behind computer screens and cell phones, and even lovers, under the tutelage of Hollywood, forego the vulnerability of romance...
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