What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.
If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
I'd do a demo recording by myself, layering instruments on top of one another, and while that's fun, it doesn't have the same impact as getting some great players together in a great studio with a great engineer and producer, then waiting for the magic.
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
I'm just a musician and a record producer.
After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
I want to be known simply as a producer who makes music.
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.