Thursday, April 18, 2013

Everybody's Got A Hungry Heart, But Not Everybody Feeds Theirs Properly


So maybe you and some guys from school have a band you tried real hard.  Maybe someone quit, maybe someone got married, but now you might be thinking that you’ll never get far.  This is up to you.  Your artistic endeavors will only be fruitful and worth your time if treat them as such.  For example, opening a paragraph by paraphrasing a Bryan Adams song does not demonstrate a particularly devout relationship with the craft (unless it’s done ironically, as I did).  There’s a lot of talk on this page, and others like it, about the futility of poorly run social media campaigns, the importance of diligence on the business end of things and the value of forethought in general.  But it’s easy to forget that dedication is the ultimate deal breakers in a musician’s would-be career.  In the immortal, ambiguous and somewhat obscure words of Abraham Lincoln, “Whatever you are, be a good one.”

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