Marketing For Musicians

Fake it till you make it. I used to be really nervous to perform, especially in front of crowds that didn’t know me. And Michelle’s like, if you don’t learn how to be confident, this is not going to work. And so, you can pretend, confidence, and then it becomes true, becomes something that becomes genuine. So sometimes in life, you just got to act like you have great faith, for example. And if you keep acting like you have great faith, then it becomes more and more real. And that’s how I feel about for me to act like I was faithful or confident or fearless and it has become true over the years.

At the end of the day, I could make the most beautiful thing possible, but if no one sees it, all it is is therapy. It doesn’t do anyone a whole lot of good if they don’t ever hear it. So I think for me, that was a big thing that it took me a while to learn. I could spend all my hours on technicality, but there are these other aspects that create success in musicianship that maybe don’t always look like music, but they’re equally as important.

Get rid of pride, just get rid of the pride. I think pride kills so many relationships on both sides, not just composers, also directors too.