We ask five musicians: Can anyone ‘make it’ in today’s music industry?

“It's like becoming an astronaut to say, ‘Oh, I'm going to go have Taylor Swift's career.’ It's absurd… What I want more than anything else, which we have a lot of, is freedom. We make enough money to get by, but we can do whatever we want.”

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