Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything…

To be honest, busking was a massive part of becoming aware of homelessness. I used to run into a lot of 'Big Issue' sellers…

— Passenger

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading…

— Glen Hansard

Dance Monkey' is about the bad side of busking.

— Tones and I

My mum pushed me to get a normal job when I finished school, and I just wasn't into that at all. So I hit…

— Tash Sultana

There was a lot of times when I was busking there were a lot of people in your face, like 'More, more! Go again,…

— Tones and I

I've done my share of busking, and it's fun until it isn't. There are musicians in the subways that will make you cry, they're…

— Andrew Bird

I felt like I was homeless anyway, so the change in environment wasn't that much of a big deal. I felt pretty much the…

— Benjamin Clementine

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's…

— Glen Hansard

I started busking when I was 24. I was living with Mom and Dad. I'd broken up with my girlfriend and didn't know what…

— Passenger

If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel.…

— Tash Sultana

Without busking, there is no Fantastic Negrito.

— Fantastic Negrito

Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.

— Tones and I

I chose busking because I didn't want to be working for someone else. I wanted to work as I am. I feel like you…

— Tash Sultana

I had to pay back the money for the equipment my parents bought me, the amp, the microphone, and I paid it back in…

— Ruel

The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts…

— Andy Grammer