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30 Dec 2019 Conversations with Tyler Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
“There’s always a little bit of “You have to do it if you love it.” You don’t do it because you could make money.”
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- Abhijit Banerjee
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- preference
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- 30 Dec 2019
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…Through concertizing or overseas work or how? I think through concertizing. I do think that if you look at the top echelon of these people, their fees have gone up a lot, and they’re in demand. It’s not clear to me that this is any worse than it ever was. There’s always a little bit of “You have to do it if you love it.” You don’t do it because you could make money. And the movie industry has always been quite generous. Ravi Shankar also was a music director for many films, and he composed music for many films, et cetera. Bollywood is actually a pretty good client for good classical musicians. And Bollywood is one of India’s great successes. With the tradition of training Indian classical musicians through the family, being passed down father to son — will that persist, or is that an anachronism?…
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