There’s a lot of elements in the music business that you can’t know or understand until you get there and experience them.
Questions like “How do I make it” “How do I write a hit song” “How do I get to play at the next Pope rally”…can’t be answered in a nice neat concise way that will help solve that particular problem.
However…
It’s worth it to spend time with people who know more than you do.
When is the last time you sought someone out…not to talk with them, but to LISTEN to them??
It’s true: When you’re listening, you’re learning.
Be teachable. Talk less. Yes, you have a million thoughts/worries/fears/dreams, but can you come up with one or two good questions?
Seeking someone out for this reason is scary. It requires you to admit to yourself and to others that you can’t do it alone. You have to put yourself beneath someone. You have to let yourself be lead.
Make a list of five people who definitely know more than you and ask them to meet.
Have a few specific questions and then just listen.
But you probably won’t do this, because you’d rather complain about the questions than seek out the people who can breathe life into them.
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