I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
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.
The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.
If I have an audience, I'd like to make music for my whole life. But it's not really up to me.
I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.
I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it.
Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.
I was a musician for years before I started doing this stuff. Show business was the only thing I ever considered.