So we’re talking about how to become a respected musician by the public. You see, begging for respect, if you’re getting a lot of haters & doubters, is not going to cut it. You’ve got to earn the respect yourself carefully and responsibly. Not only that you need to be positive at all times, leave your ego at the door and be professional. There are other ways to earn respect by the public, just by simply working hard on your music and concentrating on that only. If you concentrate on the music only, not getting into any kind of online discussions, rants or other bullshit, and not getting into any drama of any kind, that is one way to earn respect. Other ways to earn respect, is work on your music and improve your talent. The better you become musically, the more respect you will get. Just work hard on your music, and play the gigs, the respect will come to you on it’s own.

If you do get into online discussions with other people, be careful with those too. I know how musicians love to go on rants online but at the same time that can be dangerous for your career, professionally. Words do come across people, if you say wrong things. There’s nothing wrong with a musician being honest about things, but there are better ways of handling it. I still like to be real and honest about things to this day, but I learn to get better at it, by not being so aggressive as I used to be, and learn to leave names out of things.

Yes, there will always be those kind of critics who will always dislike you, no matter how good of a person you are, but you can’t please everyone, right? Pay no mind to those kind of people and just continue to be you. Those critics and haters will always be around, no matter what you do. So don’t reply to anything written about you, and continue to do your thing.

Who knows, maybe the critics will come around and respect you later, once they realize that you are talented and can be something special. Give it time, don’t worry about negative feedback and before you know it, you will become respected on it’s own. Keep working on the music and who knows what may happen. The internet gives people the freedom to be honest, just take all feedback with heart.

Kev