Luke Doucet – HuffPost 9.24.10

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

Luke Doucet: Well, you have to spread yourself thin, and I don’t care how talented you are because that’s not going to get you very far. You have to work really hard. Here’s the advice I would give: If you can be something else, a landscaper, lawyer, or a graphic artist, do that. The only people who should make music are people who have no choice because they’re driven to it and there’s nothing else that could keep them happy. If you can do something else, you should do something else because it’s too hard. The people that succeed are separated from the people that don’t by one thing only, and it’s determination. If you’re not one hundred percent sure that it’s what you want to do, you should probably do something else.