David Gray – HuffPost 9.13.10

Mike Ragogna: What kind of advice do you have for up and coming artists?

David Gray: I always stumble a bit on this question. I just think, follow your heart, and try to not listen to what the consensus view is. Follow your feelings about music, don’t listen to the media. Just play it the way you want to play it, and try to have faith in that. Stay in the game, you never know when something is going to happen for you. It could seem like nothing is ever going to happen, and then next thing you know, you’ve got a hit on your hands. It’s strange, sometimes, how things can work. Don’t listen to all the nay-sayers because music will always exist, and people need it and thrive on it. So, if you want to make it, you have to have some faith in what you’re making, otherwise you won’t be around for long. It’s a crushed world, and it’s a lacerated industry, but people still have a passion for music, same as ever. You just have to make the music good so that you don’t get sick of it, and everything else will work itself out. It’s a follow your heart business. Don’t try to play what you think someone else wants to hear. That’s really about the only advice I can give.