Ah yeah I know what you mean, but I don't quite agree. I guess it really depends on who you talk to when it comes to being a musician and it being respected. Personally I think it is very respectable, because at the end of the day there really are much worse things that we could be doing. People have just become so use to us being there that we are taken for granted. Almost like faulty sensory awareness. If we disappear we would be missed :)