When you want to be a musician and become a part of the musicians community, yes, you are literally going to be surrounded by a bunch of assholes, huge egos, drama queens, attention whores and you’ll have to deal with a lot of “cliques” but… playing music is not about making friends with everybody and trying to make everybody happy. That’s what a lot of musicians and local music fans mistakenly believe. You’re gonna deal with a lot of bullying, harassment and others making fun of you and all of that stuff but you have to ignore everyone the best you can and fuck everyone, ya know??? You’re gonna have heated feuds with other musicians and not get along with a lot of them. Like I said before in this paragraph, I’ll repeat myself once more, “Playing music is not about making friends and trying to make everybody happy”.

You picked up your instrument for a reason. You spent many years of your life trying to get good at what you do. Whatever you do, play covers or originals. You either sing or play an instrument, whatever.

To me what being a musician is all about is making music ’cause YOU enjoy doing it. Music is here for you. You’re here to make music to share it with the world. Whatever your goals and dreams are in music whether you do music for the money or not, you must focus on that and not worry about what others think. You’re gonna get haters. You’re gonna get doubters. That’s just the way music works. No matter how much controversy or backlash you get, you gotta keep moving forward with your music and only concentrate on that. You need to focus on your dreams and goals, not worrying about how everyone else feels about you good or bad.

I like what I do. Just making music for the internet and not worrying about becoming a star or anything. I just make music ’cause it’s what I do. I don’t care to perform on a large stage in front of thousands of fans. I’m fine with recording music at home with just a simple recording rig on a computer or an Ipad. That’s all I need.

You don’t need to play music to make friends or to be a star. I’m not in it to make friends or to be a star. You play music ’cause you enjoy it. I play music ’cause it’s how I live my life. Without it, I would be nothing. I love guitar playing and that’s all I wanna do. You should have that same attitude as well.

Kev