Colin Huggins

Then other people say like, okay, fine.

I'll check this out.

Well, here's where the money comes up.

I'll be honest with you, being a street performer, it's not that great to talk about money.

But I tell you what, I thought about this, and I'm going to make an exception for you.

When I first started doing this about nine years ago, over the course of a day, I really wouldn't make that much money.

I would make somewhere between $100 and $150 in a day.

It was just barely enough to pay my rent.

Now that I've really perfected the art of doing this, I rarely make less than $1,000 in a day.

Yeah, so it's a long day, but for most musicians, artists, it's really a pretty good day.

I started to learn more about what people want and what they value in a performance, specifically a piano performance.

There's certain kinds of music and there's certain kinds of musical structures that draw people in and make them really value and appreciate what I do.

So in the beginning, I didn't really understand that and

As I watched people's faces and watched what they reacted to, I learned to say, okay, I should not play this piece, and I'll try a new piece.

Okay, trying this new piece, and this works fabulous.

People are really drawn in.

What is it about this piece that people love so much?

And then I just, from there, weekend after weekend,

I just got better at doing what I do.

A little bit.