As my life goes by, I realize being a musician and sharing my work and my perspective of life is all I want to do. Like really, it's so hard for me to do anything else. I work hard every day to make music my main source of income, but still have to do other things on the side. This situation can take you to dark places sometimes. For example: I started working as a cook at a Mexican restaurant one month ago. After two weeks of working there I started to loose all my motivation. Doing something that was not creative started to take all my energy away. At some point I completely stopped caring about the food I was preparing. As a result I started to make mistakes. The owner started yelling at me and that just made things worse. After three weeks of working there I had to quit that job. When I got home after my last day of work the idea and fear that I could maybe spend the rest of my life doing side jobs like that one in order to bring economic stability to my life took over me. Then, the idea of quitting music and just focusing on a career that would most likely bring money to my life started to grow disproportionately. Now, here was a good time to put in practice some mind control. Putting my mind in blank so I could let that sea of thoughts calm down was my first step. Then, realizing that those thoughts are only thoughts. They are not real, was step two. And step three for me was to realize, like I said before, that this is the only thing I want to do. Nothing makes me remotely as happy as doing this. So in my case I don't let myself have another choice. Otherwise I would be lying to myself. Step four was to think that I create my music for a bigger purpose than myself. I genuinely want my music and art to help others become more in touch with themselves, and thus bring enrichment into their lives.
Now, here is and objective thought I have: If so many people are very successful at selling non artistic and poorly crafted music, why wouldn't we be able to do the same with artistic and well crafted music? It should actually be easier and cheaper! Truth is yes, we don't have nearly the same amount of resources record labels have, but thanks to social media, etc, the gates have been open for us! We just need to become good at it, at sharing our work. How? Practice, practice, practice. There's no secret. I believe.
My new single will be out on October 1st! Shadows and Reflections. Keep up the good thoughts!
