The question seems strange. Is there any occupation where all that are involved in it do it with passion? I think that it is a most human quality that some bring passion to their work and some do not.
So not to put too fine a point on it, there are many musicians that do not bring passion to their work.
What is great about music however, and pretty much validates all artists, is that I might hear one thing, and you might hear another.
I hear tremendous passion in Dylan's version of "Simple Twist Of Fate" and Krall leaves me cold. I may be channeling seeing Dylan do it live, when it was still fresh and new, during the Rolling Thunder Review concert at the Garden, but so much of these things are our gut reaction to the song. Most of us aren't in the dressing room to hear that the audience are idiots or that they make the whole thing possible so we are projecting this perception of passion, rather than having some first hand knowledge of it.
So not to put too fine a point on it, there are many musicians that do not bring passion to their work.
What is great about music however, and pretty much validates all artists, is that I might hear one thing, and you might hear another.
I hear tremendous passion in Dylan's version of "Simple Twist Of Fate" and Krall leaves me cold. I may be channeling seeing Dylan do it live, when it was still fresh and new, during the Rolling Thunder Review concert at the Garden, but so much of these things are our gut reaction to the song. Most of us aren't in the dressing room to hear that the audience are idiots or that they make the whole thing possible so we are projecting this perception of passion, rather than having some first hand knowledge of it.