Category Archives for "Advice for New Artists"
September 11, 2013
Devil Wears Prada’s Mike Hranica – HuffPost 9.11.13
Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists? Mike Hranica: To care, which I don’t know how much people do anymore. For young artists, they need to know what they’re trying to do, and if what they’re trying to do is make money or look cool on a website or obtain Instagram followers, then […]
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September 6, 2013
Little River Band’s Wayne Nelson – HuffPost 9.6.13
Mike Ragogna: Wayne, what is your advice for new artists? Wayne Nelson: Part of it is advice that I wish I had been told or paid attention to a long, long time ago: Write music. Write your own music. Write your own lyrics. Write whatever you feel because the opportunity to put that to music […]
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September 6, 2013
- in Advice for New Artists , Jimmy Webb by Mike
Jimmy Webb – HuffPost 9.6.13
Mike Ragogna: Jimmy, what advice do you have for the new artist or songwriter? Jimmy Webb: Get out of the business as fast as you can. [laughs] There’s really only one answer to that question, and that is that only you can create your own road. There is no highway to stardom. There’s only a […]
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September 6, 2013
- in Advice for New Artists , Nora Guthrie by Mike
Nora Guthrie – HuffPost 9.6.13
Mike Ragogna: What’s your advice for new artists? Nora Guthrie: Don’t be afraid of caring about things. Don’t let anyone talk you out of caring about things. Find out what you care about and write songs about it. That could fill a lifetime, and is the secret to artistic longevity. MR: What do you think […]
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September 4, 2013
- in Advice for New Artists , Tom Ruprecht by Mike
Tom Ruprecht – HuffPost 9.4.13
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new or budding writers? Tom Ruprecht: As long as your cover has a slick photo of keys or cufflinks or something else evocative of 50 Shades of Gray, presto, your book will be published and heavily marketed. Congrats!
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September 4, 2013
- in Advice for New Artists , Julian Lennon by Mike
Julian Lennon – HuffPost 9.4.13
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Julian Lennon: Well, I think that is it. I’ve got to say one thing, it’s much more difficult, in many respects, because there are so many artists out there today, we’re almost all drowning. Sadly, with regards to radio and many other formats and even […]
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September 4, 2013
- in Advice for New Artists , Emmy Wildwood by Mike
Emmy Wildwood – HuffPost 9.4.13
Mike Ragogna: You set up the next question perfectly. What advice do you have for new artists? Emmy Wildwood: Oh, my gosh. Okay, so I tell myself this all the time because I’m constantly hitting roadblocks. There are always problems. There are two things: The first is to just keep swimming, just keep going. I […]
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September 4, 2013
- in Advice for New Artists , Gloria Estefan by Mike
Gloria Estefan – HuffPost 9.4.13
Mike Ragogna: Given that, what is your advice for new artists? Gloria Estefan: Oh, my God! You know, especially now, it is so tough for them because they are facing a time where it’s a singles-related thing and people’s attention span is so short, it’s tough to develop a career. All I tell artists is […]
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