Are you in this for the right reasons?
No matter what style of music you make, please do yourself and everyone who will ever hear you a favour…Think about this for a minute: Determine what your goal is, why you are making music, and how making music will help you achieve said goal. And be brutally honest with yourself.
If your answer to the above request goes something like this “I wanna be a ROCKSTAR” or “I have to be famous” then put your instruments down right now and never pick them back up, ever. Why? Because if all you want to do is get famous, there are much easier ways to achieve that goal that are far more efficient and don’t waste anyone elses time either. If, however, your answer is more like “because music is the only thing that drives me” or “music is how I express myself, and I have a statement to make to the world with it,” then carry on. You’re the musicians who will have realistic careers, and you’re the ones the world wants to hear from.
This is the only way to truly connect with your audience. Anything but true, honest music is going to smack of insincerity and while you might fool some people for a little while, it’s not going to work forever. Music fans are pretty smart, and they’ll get wise to you pretty quickly.
“Rich and famous” shouldn’t be your target goal, it’s merely a by-product of relentless hard work and practice, unwavering belief, thousands of hours and days spent struggling to spread your message the only way you know how, and natural-born-talent.
