In terms of how to launch a music career, I have often humored myself with the notion that, the greatest mistake any man might make is to view his own life as a “story” at all. In terms of making a decision as to whether or not you should pursue a music career (as opposed to downgrading to a hobby), you need to get absolutely clear in your head what is fact and what is fiction, regarding your decision. If you have chosen to be a professional music Artist, your songs might very well tell a great story, but perhaps, so should you if you want people to pay attention to your songs or your music. This includes Instrumentalists as well as the pens they should all be using to write about what the music they create means to them.
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I understand that not everybody likes to speak, especially when we all want so badly for our work to speak for us. Unfortunately, those songs aren’t able to instruct people to push the play button on the ipod. They may not even be in the ipod if you are not doing your part to push them in some way so that people will know they exist and, perhaps, push the play button themselves. You will have to include your music in the marketplace. This is the very beginning of how to launch a music career.
Life (in the esoteric) has no need for a story, since it should be filled to capacity with living. That doesn’t mean that if you’ve chosen to pursue a music career, you should be afraid of success either because, if you are, you won’t get anywhere. To get too caught up in a story (especially if it’s one’s own) can be a complete waste of time, I realize. It can also be quite a lot for others to have to deal with. Yet, if you are looking for a happy ending to your story, you had still better realize that you are worth the creation of one. You will get to leave something truly invaluable behind: your music.
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To be fearless in the face of success, one must keep in mind that none of us knows the ending to the larger story (the one that includes all of us). No matter how it ends, we were fully living and love was the only meaning. Sorry if I sound corny, but for everybody’s sake, I hope I’m correct. Go ahead and write a story, write your career, and don’t be afraid. At the end of the day, it’s sometimes helpful to keep the idea that all words might be meaningless, but the words or music you created might very well end up a needed (and even healing) portion of another person’s daily existence. This is how to launch a music career. It is also why you should if you have the talent.
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The idea that there is no real meaning grants you the opportunity to create some without any fear of success or failure. The idea might also free you up a bit (along with your productivity when pushing your material), as unconventional as it might sound. Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there musically for fear of a consequence to your story. It can often manifest as success from A LOT of hard work. Those that go the very farthest in this world probably have the wisdom that their own “lives” (at least in the esoteric sense), have no real need for a story. This gives them the FREEDOM to create one without fear of consequence (again, mainly of success). Let this idea free you up to create something too, particularly a successful music career. The “story” is nothing more than any (successful) person’s by-product from fully living and participating, being present to do so, and not getting caught up in any story line, especially one’s own. This idea might keep an ego in proper check too, which should also lead to success. This is definitely how to launch a music career.
Humility is often a storyline that is, by far, most admirable to all, at least in my own book.
More to come.
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