Dave Koz – HuffPost 5.29.13

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists?

Dave Koz: Well the advice is “Use what you’ve got.” Use what you as a new artist on the scene have that we barely had when we were starting out, and that is the vast power of a global audience that you can connect to. Now, of course, there’s all kinds of issues that are raised with that–how do you access them, what do you do, which outlets do you use… For me, I’m playing catch-up on the social media space. I’m trying to figure out how to access all this information, all these people, all these applications, and I’m trying to figure it out because I’m an old school guy. I started doing all this twenty-five years ago, so this is all new. But for someone coming up on the scene right now who is very nimble with all this new media, the world is your oyster. You don’t have to play the game by the old rules, you can make up your own rules, new rules, coming up from this point on. Embrace what’s here for you that wasn’t for all of us and do it on your own terms. You don’t have to do it in any way that it was done before. It’s the Wild, Wild West of the music world.