Category Archives for "Advice for New Artists"
October 12, 2012
Ben Folds – HuffPost 10.12.12
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Ben Folds: My answer stays pretty much the same. I thought VH1 had it right with their old moniker, “Music First.” That’s what I think for young artists. Keep it about your art. It’s really easy for someone to say, “Well things change. Everything’s changed […]
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October 12, 2012
- in Advice for New Artists , Craig Chaquico by Mike
Craig Chaquico – HuffPost 10.12.12
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Craig Chaquico: Oh boy. Honestly, the one thing I like to say is, “Don’t give up.” Some of my favorite authors are guys who had their books passed on like a hundred times before a college put out their first book, and now, they’re like […]
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October 10, 2012
Plan B (Ben Drew) – HuffPost 10.10.12
Mike Ragogna: Right. What advice do you have advice for new artists? Plan B (Ben Drew): Like musicians rather than actors? If you’re listening to the music on the radio now and you’re kind of constructing the way you make music to fit in with what’s on the radio now, I think you’re just setting […]
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October 10, 2012
Rachael MacFarlane – HuffPost 10.10.12
Mike Ragogna: Rachael, what advice do you have for new artists? Rachael McFarlane: You know, I think I can say this without a shadow of doubt–if you keep working hard at this, you can make it happen. I mean, for me, this was a dream that I really thought had passed me by. I’m not […]
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October 5, 2012
- in Advice for New Artists , David Sanborn by Mike
David Sanborn – HuffPost 10.5.12
[Note: This is taken from one of my interviews with David Sanborn that I believe is both informative and inspirational.] DS: …bebop grew out of swing music, and when bebop started to be ascendant, people were decrying in all of these publications the death of jazz, that bebop was killing jazz. They said the same […]
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October 5, 2012
- in Advice for New Artists , Kurt Elling by Mike
Kurt Elling – HuffPost 10.5.12
Mike Ragogna: Perhaps you could give a little advice for new artists? Kurt Elling: Well, really, the only advice is for up-and-coming artists to give everything that they can to the music, to love it with their actions as much as they do with their mouth, and by that, I mean really get in there […]
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October 5, 2012
- in Advice for New Artists , Fourplay , Lee Ritenour by Mike
Lee Ritenour – HuffPost 10.5.12
Mike Ragogna: Lee, what advice do you have for new artists? Lee Ritenour: Well, it’s very challenging for new artists today. There’s a lot more talent out there, there’s a lot more people trying to do it, there’s a lot more people coming out of the schools, vocalists and instrumentalists, all different aspects of music. […]
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October 4, 2012
Stevie Nicks – HuffPost 10.4.12
Mike Ragogna: Yeah, and you’ve said you would like to leave this behind for people who are getting into music, which brings me to my next question. What advice do you have for new artists? Stevie Nicks: Well, if I had kids that were fifteen, sixteen, seventeen years old and I could see that they […]
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