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“Find something you love and go for it with all your heart. No excuses, no plan B. Never settle for anything less than you know you can do.
It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“The people who blame everything and every body else for their lack of success, tended to continue to have a lack of success.

Your Proactive, problem solving minded, assertive and responsible approach is going to carry you much further than whining, blaming, pointing fingers and justifying your failures.”
― Loren Weisman

“Many years later after the sell-outs, betrayals, and hatred which would tear us apart, when our brotherhood had been destroyed, I鈥檇 always look back and remember that night. That fucking wild night at the KeyClub, when the smoke stung my eyes but my world was full of nothing but blind hope. When life was not a mockery, but a very real fire which flamed through my veins like the most incredible drug... the night when Kelly-Lee Obann, drunk, high and barely 20 the time, looked out through his hair with a terrible nakedness and said to me;
鈥淲e鈥檙e not gonna make it out of this alive. You know that, right?”
― H. Alazhar, City of Paradise

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It's not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the 'right time,' the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you, no one else,”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.”
― Loren Weisman

“The daily mindfulness, consistency, and discipline is ultimately more important than the amount of time. In other words, it鈥檚 more about quality than quantity. If you use 15 minutes effectively, you鈥檒l accomplish more than you would be able to with two hours of unfocused, random actions.”
― Simon S. Tam, Music Business Hacks

“Your mistakes aren鈥檛 learning experiences鈥f you aren鈥檛 learning from them.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business by Loren Weisman (2010) Paperback

“This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts.鈥�
- Eminem
鈥淒ope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful.鈥�
- Guru (Gang Starr)
鈥淵ou like a Psychiatrist or some shit? This shit is just coming out but go ahead.鈥�
- Mary J. Blige
鈥淒efinitely a real interview! Digging deep up in there, man. Not afraid to ask questions!鈥�
- K-Ci Hailey (Jodeci)
鈥淭he Wizard asked me for a copy of your magazine.鈥�
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (Daft Punk)
鈥淵ou didn鈥檛 wear your glasses and you haven鈥檛 carried your hearing aid. What else is wrong with you?鈥�
- Bushwick Bill
鈥淧eace and blessing, Brother Harris. Thank you for inspiring my words. Keep 鈥榶o balance.鈥�
- Erykah Badu
鈥淐an I see that pen?鈥�
- Bobby Brown
鈥淲hat else do you want to know? Talk to me.鈥�
- Aaliyah”
― Harris Rosen

“Some were only there to see and be seen. Some to watch the fall. People love free booze and a car crash.”
― Chris DiCroce, Burning Man

“It's time to respect yourself and your dream, both truly deserve that respect. be the person you would do anything for. Be the person you will not let down.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The 鈥淲ho, What, When, Where, Why & How鈥� of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Choose those you give your trust to carefully. Be caring; be loving; be creative. But also be careful.”
― Loren Weisman, Music Business For Dummies

“The most devastating thing artists can do to their career is get in their own way, and way too many people do. It鈥檚 not the labels, the industry, the fans, the cities, the economy, the social media, the marketing, the promoting, the 鈥渞ight time,鈥� the music, or whatever other excuse you can come up with that determines whether you succeed or you fail. It is you鈥攏o one else.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The 鈥淲ho, What, When, Where, Why & How鈥� of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Try not to sound like those singer-songwriters that go on and on with ten-minute, barely intelligible stories that everyone endures until the next song starts.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Waiting to be discovered, hoping to be seen, wishing someone else would do the work, wanting to make it big while dreaming of being rich and famous just like your heroes is submissive, passive, foolish, weak, and ineffective. Take your desire for your dreams, your goals, and your ambition, then make them fuel for the fire to light your ass up, to get to work and on the path to make it happen.
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“Do not assume that people are seeing you. The more you can clarify, optimize, and engage your fans and strangers with branded marketing and merchandise, the better chance you have of being seen and then heard.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“Success in the music industry isn鈥檛 something that you wait for or hope for. It is something that you create, day after day.”
― Simon S. Tam, Music Business Hacks

“I鈥檓 not sure why I thought it would be a good idea to bring Kanish to Mel Odious Sound yesterday. Bringing a Billionheir to a large recording complex full of Producers is like opening a bag of chips at a seagull convention. It wouldn鈥檛 be long before every Producer within earshot swooped in to aggressively pitch his latest and greatest pet project, most of which would likely prove unprofitable.

Rev is obviously going to pitch a project, and it very well may be something amazing. But as I鈥檝e pointed out, in order for Kanish to make a profit, he would have to pick up half the Publishing鈥攁 non-starter for the Rev. He鈥檚 not a Songwriting Producer, so he likely doesn鈥檛 have a sufficient portion of the Publishing to share. And even if he did, no seasoned Producer is going to give half of their equity in a song in order to basically secure a small loan from an outside investor. There鈥檚 no upside.

For starters, Kanish has no channels of Distribution beyond Streaming, which is already available to anyone and everyone who wants it, and which is currently only profitable for the Major Labels and the stockholders of the Streaming services themselves. Everyone else is getting screwed. And please don鈥檛 quote me the Douchebag Big Tech Billionaires running big Streaming Corporations. They are literally lining their pockets with the would-be earnings of Artists and Songwriters alike. What they claim as fair is anything but.

Frankly, I don鈥檛 think we should be comfortable with Spotify taking a 30 percent margin off the top, and then disbursing the Tiger鈥檚 Share of the remaining 70 percent to the Major Labels who have already negotiated top dollar for access to their catalog. This has resulted in nothing but some remaining scraps trickling down to the tens of thousands of Independent Artists out there who just want to make a living. You can鈥檛 make a living off scraps, or even a trickle, for that matter.

Mark my words, we are currently witnessing the greatest heist in the annals of the Music Business, and that鈥檚 saying something given its history. Can you say Napster?

Stunningly, the only place that Songwriters can make sufficient Performance Royalties is radio鈥攁 medium that is coming up on its hundred-year anniversary. To make matters worse, the Major Distributors still have radio all locked up, and without airplay, there鈥檚 no hit. So even now, more than twenty years into the Internet revolution, the odds of breaking through the artistic cacophony without Major-Label Distribution are impossibly low. So much for the Internet leveling the playing field.

At this point, only Congress can solve the problem. And despite the fact that Streaming has been around since the mid-aughts, Congress has done nothing to deal with the issue. Why? Because it鈥檚 far cheaper for Big Tech to line the pockets of lobbyists and fund the campaigns of politicians who gladly ignore the issue than it is to pay Artists and Songwriters a fair rate for their work, my friends.

Same is it ever was.

Just so I鈥檓 clear, there is a debate to be had as to how much Songwriters and Artists should be paid for Streaming. A radio Spin can reach millions. A Stream rarely reaches more than a few listeners. Clearly, a new method of calculation is required. But that doesn鈥檛 mean that we should just sit by as the Big Tech Douchebags rob an entire generation of royalties all so they can sell their Streaming Corporation for billions down the line. I mean, that is the end game, after all. At which point, profit for the new majority stockholder will be all but impossible. How will anyone get paid then?”
― Mixerman, #Mixerman and the Billionheir Apparent

“Sure, there are little victories here and there that may seem like lucky breaks, but luck is simply when preparation meets opportunity.”
― Ari Herstand (https://www.patreon.com/posts/why-local-bands-6884395)

“The average artist has a na茂ve, unrealistic, and disconnected view of what the music industry is, how it works, what is involved in 鈥渕aking it鈥�, and what actually is happening behind the scenes. Too many artists take at face value what they see on some TV documentary or read in a fan magazine. Whether you are working with others in a band, looking to connect with a manager, an agent, a label, or an investor, or you just want to work in the industry, it is more crucial than ever to know what you are working for and toward.”
― Loren Weisman, The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business: The 鈥淲ho, What, When, Where, Why & How鈥� of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

“鈥猅here is autotune where a voice can be enhanced, embellished and gently shifted or corrected to pitch.鈥�

鈥猅hen there is autotuna which stinks to high hell in the excess of making people sound talented that have little to none at all.鈥�”
― Loren Weisman

“Se dai da mangiare al pubblico soltanto quello che ti chiede, piegando cio che sei a cio che vorrebbero tu fossi non sei un buon artista, se ne andranno sazi senza aver imparato nulla di te.”
― Veronica Vitale, Inside The Outsider

“Patrick had never thought about killing a person. Not until Nick Richards knocked out one of his teeth.”
― A.J. Reid, Grey Noise: Rock and Roll can be Murder

“You are more than a number, a like or a vote. You are a voice. You are part of an authentic collective that is heard, honored and amplified to artists, their representation, managers, investors and record label”
― Neil Collins BH

“You realized that you were really in one of the sleaziest businesses there is, without actually being a gangster. It was a business where the only time people laughed was when they'd screwed someone else over.”
― Keith Richards, Life