Seymour Stein – HuffPost 10.4.13

Mike Ragogna: Seymour, what’s your advice for new artists?

Seymour Stein: I’m going up to see an artist that has been around for quite some time without having any real success. But I’ve seen something in him that I like and I’m going to see him again tomorrow. Never give up. It’s a very, very rough business. If it’s any consolation to the artists, it’s rough for us on the other side of the desk too. But there are many more pressures on an artist time-wise because it’s almost like they’re looking in their mind at an hourglass with the salt running through it, a lot of them. But never give up, never stop believing in yourself. I don’t know what else I can say about that. It’s not an easy business then or now. People may think it’s a lot easier today with the internet, but it’s a smaller market on the recorded side of things, and the internet has opened it up to that many more people, so the competition is much greater now. It’s not easy but it’s very rewarding. I’m so glad that it’s been a part of my life since my teens. I’m seventy-one, I’m still working every day and I couldn’t think of anything that would make me as happy as being in the music business.