World class violinist plays in public but no one really cared

My apologies but whether this man is the best violinist in the world or not is an opinion. Now with that being said eveyone has different tastes in music and in what they perceive as beautiful therefore to say that no one stops to smell the roses is completely arbitrary. No one may stop to smell your roses but they would rather smell their own.

I'm a music student, and I understand that people have places to go, appointments, schedules

I'm goingng to see him preform next Friday :)))

People have things to do you know. Doesn't make them unappreciative or bad people.

Would he or the reporter "stop and smell the roses " if they had to be somewhere on time?

32$ in 45 minutes are pretty great and the experiment would be more worthing if he did it in a park or somewhere you go to when you have time to stop and listen

Thats nice but Bitch I'm late for work

maybe, they just didnt know

There are other factors here. 1: the feeling of being forced to give money. "I did something nice for you without your consent, now pay me". It's very awkward, if not rude. If you don't want to reward this kind of racket/blackmail, or if you can't give anything because you're short on cash, then the only vaguely polite way out is to not acknowledge the music and the musician. 2: it's awkward to stay and stare at someone who's struggling so much in life he has to perform in the metro; it's like you're taking advantage of this guy's misery somehow. Points 1 and 2 are somehow contradictory: the listener is exploiting and being exploited at the same time; social inequalities suck, you feel and think of that while listening to the music, it spoils everything.

There's time and place for everything. This wasn't either