Mike Andrews – HuffPost 10.25.12

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

Mike Andrews: You know, make music you love and that way if anybody ends up liking your music, they like the same music that you do. It seems like a simple concept. But for me, that’s really been the key to continuing playing music. Make stuff you like and be open to situations where you don’t think you might fit in.

MR: I think that’s such a subtle point. I think sometimes when people are making music, they’re not making music that they like. They’re being pragmatic.

MA: Yeah. It’s hard. As a musician, you want to do something that you think is going to be successful. Obviously, anything you do, if you’re going to put your whole day into it or whatever, you want it to give you something back. Sometimes that gets clouded with the motivation. The ambition clouds the art. I think you’ve just got to remember that music is a spiritual art form… to me, anyway. Even in its most commercial sense, when I’m doing a film score, it’s still coming from my heart. It’s not coming from science, or whatever. It’s not coming from what I think someone might like, it’s what I like.