Category Archives for "Advice for New Artists"
August 2, 2013
Walking Papers’ Duff McKagan – HuffPost 8.2.13
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Duff McKagan: It all comes down to the simplest thing that it’s always come down to. The music you’re making has got to be something you believe in and not what’s current. If you try to write music around what’s current right now… Maybe some […]
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July 31, 2013
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. – HuffPost 7.31.13
Mike Ragogna: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., what is your advice for new artists? Billy Davis, Jr.: One of the things, I would like to say for new artists is make sure you are dedicated to your profession, because dedication is probably one of the most important things as far as trying to make […]
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July 29, 2013
Incubus’ Brandon Boyd – HuffPost 7.29.13
Mike Ragogna: Hey, what advice do you have for new artists? Brandon Boyd: That’s a wonderful question. In coming up as a young artist, there was a lot of advice flying around from other bands and industry people and managers and things like that, and I learned early on that it would probably behoove my […]
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July 29, 2013
Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda – HuffPost 7.29.13
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Mike Shinoda: I always tell new artists that the key to their success as they’re beginning is to not worry about other people helping them out. It’s really that they have the power to get their music to the next step completely on their own […]
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July 26, 2013
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Earl Klugh – HuffPost 7.26.13
Mike Ragogna: What’s your advice for new artists? Earl Klugh: I tell you what. I think that things are really looking up from my perspective as far as music. You have all types of great jazz artists now, you have really great country music, there’s always Broadway and all of that stuff. I try to […]
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July 26, 2013
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Lee DeWyze – HuffPost 7.26.13
Mike Ragogna: Lee, what’s your advice for new artists? Lee DeWyze: My advice for new artists is, again, not sound cliché but never take “no.” Do what you feel is right. My biggest advice is put people around you that you trust and learn to trust the people around you. That would be my number […]
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July 26, 2013
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Harper Simon – HuffPost 7.26.13
Mike Ragogna: Harper, what advice do you have for new artists? Harper Simon: Oh, gee. Well, I don’t want to get too dreary… It depends, are you asking me to give advice to someone who wants to be an artist or just somebody who has decided to make money out of the marketplace? MR: [laughs] […]
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July 19, 2013
Booker T. Jones – HuffPost 7.19.13
Mike Ragogna: Booker, what advice do you have for new artists? Booker T. Jones: Well, for a new artist… The first, most important thing and the hardest thing for some people is just to have that focused faith in your own self and to really believe in what you’re doing and somehow make that the […]
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