Do artists need talent to be enjoyed?

Trollheart · 09-02-2014, 05:17 PM

Obviously you have to have some talent. I could go onstage banging a dustbin lid for an hour, but do you think people would listen and --- and this is very important --- not chase me out of town on a rail?

If a band or artiste didn't need some sort of talent we'd all be musicians. So yeah, you need talent. How that's defined is another matter, but I would say at a minimum know how to properly play your instrument or sing.

Of course, if you're going onstage with a trio of photocopiers and rhyming in time to their rhythms reading from the works of TS Elliot, that may be a little harder to pin down.

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Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Obviously you have to have some talent. I could go onstage banging a dustbin lid for an hour, but do you think people would listen and --- and this is very important --- not chase me out of town on a rail? If a band or artiste didn't need some sort of talent we'd all be musicians. So yeah, you need talent. How that's defined is another matter, but I would say at a minimum know how to properly play your instrument or sing. Of course, if you're going onstage with a trio of photocopiers and rhyming in time to their rhythms reading from the works of TS Elliot, that may be a little harder to pin down. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018