Comments on: Why We Indie Musicians Never Fail

By: Cheryl B. Engelhardt

Cheryl B. Engelhardt — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 23:21:00 +0000

Thanks so much P.B., I LOVE what you’re up to, and I love that you are creating something that you want to be a fan of…. what GREAT motivation. love it all, and best of luck!!

By: glenndan

glenndan — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:27:00 +0000

If a musician wants to be a ‘musician’ he/she needs to learn how to take critacism. It’s not to
demean or offend it’s to make ‘you’ better. But if you can’t take it, then you need to Suck it up, and take the advice. Otherwise, you’re wasting the bands time, the studio’s time, etc.
Take it and make yourself better!

By: Bdominguez2001

Bdominguez2001 — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:27:00 +0000

“Find something you love and figure out a way to get paid for it”. I don’t know who said it, but I have never forgotten it. I’m not sure that you have to get rich, it’s just doing what you love and being able to do it. Nice article I like all of the articles that appear on this site.

By: yusuf

yusuf — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:52:00 +0000

http://www.zuluwa nnsago
looking for perfroms
bless u

By: yusuf

yusuf — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 17:50:00 +0000

am Yusuf, a Ghanaian percussionist and bandleader living in Netherlands.
With my band Zuluwannsago we play afrobeat, funk and jazz on festivals and in clubs.
Here http://www.youtube.com/zuluwannsago you’ll find some videos from a Jazz festival
where we performed.
And this is my website: http://www.yusufsbeat.nl/.
I also have a profile on myspace: http://www.myspace.com/zuluwannsago.
I hope you’ll like my music and that you are interested in booking us.
Please do let me know what you think about it.
Thanks and greetings,
Yusuf Nuweku
Tel. + 31 684123679 looking for perfromances

By: stratomeister

stratomeister — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:39:00 +0000

: “enjoy the process”

By: Papabear

Papabear — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 19:59:00 +0000

Thanks, Cheryl, for the excellent reminder of why we do what we do. I’ve been a musician for decades, and now I’m one of those guys who holes up in his attic with his computer cranking out electronic/organic music for… just me! I don’t perform live, and very few people know that I’m currently in the middle of recording/mixing/mastering an album that has pretty much taken over my life for almost a year now. I used to compare myself to others in order to measure my “success” in producing my own work, but now I have only one measure of success… would I be willing to shell out 10 or 15 bucks for my own album? Hell, yeah! I’d even buy two copies and give one to a friend who I felt just HAD to hear this guys stuff! And it wouldn’t be because it’s my work. It would be because the compositions and arrangements are compelling, the production is top notch, the packaging is beautiful, and the product as a whole is pure class by any standard! If I can be so pleased with my own stuff that I’d be my own fan, then I’ve truly succeeded (and that’s tough, given that so many of us artists live under a perpetual cloud of self-doubt and self-criticism). I want to leave behind a body of work that I’m proud to call my own, and not be embarrassed to share with whoever will listen! If I can do that, I’ve will have succeeded!

Thanks again, Cheryl… you’re definitely a success in my book!

By: Tjim05

Tjim05 — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Absolutly the best perssonal advice you could give a aspiring musician.

By: Twinls

Twinls — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:52:00 +0000

Thank you. I needed that!

By: Murphy831

Murphy831 — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:17:00 +0000

I’ve been doing music for a living for the past 35 years Cheryl. Just being able to do what I chose to do, is Success. I don’t measure success in dollars. I measure it in freedom. I set my own hours, I set my own rates. I answer to myself. I’ll never fire myself. To me…that’s winning. That’s success.