[Tumbleweed_Connection]

while acknowledging certainly his right to the fruits of his musical labours, since a market certainly did exist for them

No, it's always here.

A market exists for "talent" like yours today.

[BluesDuke]

A market exists for "talent" like yours today.

Since I am now at work on my own first book, I should certainly hope there may be a market for it. Even as I should acknowledge that, whomever might like it, not everyone will, and for their own reasons either way. That's the market, baby. And that is just fine with me.

But until I complete and publish my work, any market therefore simply cannot be known to exist. (And, if you please, I should prefer that such a market not be invented by those incompetent to manage such things - like the government, for example; no NEA or NEH or any of that thievery for me, thank you very much.) Likewise, until Elton John produced his own music for the first time on his own terms and under his own name and guidance, any market for that music simply could not have been predicted.