Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.
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Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
Artists shouldn't deal with business stuff; that's not what we're trained in, and most of us aren't good at it.
I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.
Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.
The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.
Music and the music business are two different things.
The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.
You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.
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