Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.
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If you're a musician, there's no instrument that can be withheld from you. If you're drawn to it, develop the talent for it.
All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.
You get a lot of who you are as a musician across through the music you write. If you're writing your own music, then it's important to be really honest.
I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.
I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
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