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.
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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.
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
I have my dream job. I get paid to make music.
In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.
Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.
Back home, playing music is never anything you imagine you can do for a living. It's what you do after work.
In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.
I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.
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.
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
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