The past decade has introduced many changes, opportunities and surprises in the musician business. To end the decade, we asked the musician blogging community to help us answer the following question.
If you could go back to 1999 and give yourself one piece of advice, what would it be?
Below is the list of participating blogs.
Excerpts:“What I have seen and experienced in the last ten years leads me to believe that there aren’t any shortcuts (at least not ones that tend to last) and that people who become great at whatever they do tend not to chase their goals at an unmanageable pace.”
“Surround yourself with the greatest minds available. Find ways to befriend influential leaders, artists, educators, media voices, business owners, arts patrons, and other interesting personalities. These relationships will lead to fulfilling encounters and open many doors.”
“In a month or so, you are going to get a job offer. It’s a really good straight non-music job, well paid, with a world-famous organisation that no-one could reasonably object to working for. Don’t take it, though I know you will.”
Chris Hodges on Shagtastic Voyage
Dr. David Cutler on SavvyMusician.com
Marion Harrington on Marion Harrington’s Clarinet World
Rick Goetz on Musician Coaching
Gary Melvin on Living Music
Billie Whittaker on Good Company
Jason Parker on One Working Musician
Ivan Orr on Grown Folks Music
Christopher Joel on ChristopherJoel.com
Adam Meinerding The Life of an Aspiring Musician
Heather Miller-Rodriguez on Lyrical Venus
Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs on her website
Kriz Rodgers on It’s a Muzikality
GBAC on Low Man’s Lyric
Gregory Dudzienski on Ear of the Mind
Wayne Myers on I Am Taking My Ball And I Am Going Home
Dar on high voltage rock and roll
Ethan Fein on MusicianWages.com
Mike Lunapiena on Journeys of a Cellist
CharLena Pearson on Lgwrite’s blog
Carla Lynne Hall on RockStarLifeLessons.com
Jeffrey Paul Bobrick on I Love JPB
Dave Jacoby on sans direction
Christopher Davis on The Classical Guitar Blog
Bret Pimentel on Bret Pimentel, woodwinds
Cameron Mizell of MusicianWages.com
David J. Hahn of MusicianWages.com
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I’d tell myself the following:
Learn to play an instrument, don’t rely on your vocals: you’re a better player than you are a singer.
David & Cameron, Thanks so much for inviting me to be a part of this – it was a great deal of fun. Happy New Year,
Rick
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