As I said repeatedly before, playing music as a musician shouldn’t be about getting fame, awards, money, popularity or bringing home women — whatever — music should really be about appreciating the art and for the love of music. It should be about enriching people’s lives with your talent and enriching your own life. When you get all desperate for fame, awards and all that stuff, you really are playing music for the wrong reasons. All it’s doing it is just boosting your ego even more. All you’re doing is jerking yourself off and feeling comfortable in your own ego. You’re not gonna enrich your music life by getting some silly trophy.

I don’t care to get some silly award with my music. Not what I do this for. I pretty much make music for me. It’s fine that other people wanna like my music too but I play music ’cause it’s pretty much all I have in life. I don’t know what I would be like without music. Getting an award wouldn’t make me a better person. You don’t need to let people know that you’re talented by getting some award. People will let you know that you are talented by going to your shows and buying your music. That’s all you really need. You don’t need some silly trophy.

Deep down inside though, musicians around this area knows that a music award show is silly — the only reason they are defending this thing and willing to support it is because they got nominated and they thrive over flattery every time they get mentioned anywhere. I don’t need to be like that. Never have and never will.

My question is, will this award show be giving the winners a trophy? TierOneTalent, the organizers still didn’t say what they will be winning and they didn’t even post photos of the trophy. That doesn’t sound fishy enough for ya, huh?

You don’t need an award guys. You’re doing fine of what you all are doing now… just making the music… playing the gigs and getting people to support your music. THAT’S MORE REWARDING than getting some stupid trophy.

I’ve tried to tell musicians this in facebook that they don’t need an award ’cause it takes the love out of music but they won’t listen to me. Musicians are living in their own fantasy worlds.

A lot of these guys think they’re rock stars. All they seem to care about is getting their name known. That’s not what I care about either. I just like writing the songs and performing the cover tunes… and just sharing them with people — getting feedback on my music. That’s what I do. I’m more focused on getting people to listen to my tunes. I don’t care to get awards and all of these accolades.

An award is not important. It won’t make you any bigger if you win one so keep dreaming. A true music artist wouldn’t care about an award.

Kev