The Modern Musician Show with Colin Thomson

017: Solo Saturday: Your Moral Obligation to Get Your Work Heard

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 Moral Obligation

 

 

  1. Does your music have value (musician, composer, engineer)?
  2. Is there a compelling reason that people should want to hear your music?
  3. Are there people out there who would appreciate hearing your work?
  4. If there are, than it is your moral obligation to give them the opportunity to experience it. This is not selfish or self-centered. If you firmly believe that others will enjoy it, then it is selfish not to share it
  5. Ask yourself the above questions, and if you strongly believe that the answer is yes, then there is only one solution - you have to get your music out to as many people as possible
  6. So what can you do?
  7. Treat your music like a business (lots of tools throughout TMMS interviews)
  8. Mindset is the important thing here.
  9. Artists hate to think of anything they do as a business
  10. But if your work has value, and if other people will enjoy it, and if treating it like a business is the way that you can get it out for them to hear it, then you must treat your music like a business
  11. This means all the normal things - take the required tax steps, etc
  12. But approach your work online as someone who has something of great value to share with others
  13. This is not you seeking the spot-light, but rather you understanding your own work’s value, and understand how others will enjoy it, and understanding your obligation, therefore, to let them know about it
  14. Today is all about mindset. Musicians and artists in general shy away from the business end of things - don’t be that way anymore. Embrace it with the full knowledge that it is not only going to help you, but it is entirely necessary, and on top of that, your moral obligation

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