{"id":8697,"date":"2011-06-10T08:28:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:28:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T16:28:51","slug":"work-hard-music-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/work-hard-music-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Hard But Don&#039;t Take Your Music Career Too SRSLY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><![CDATA[Charles Bukowski, in his poem \u2018Style\u201d, says that it\u2019s better to do a boring thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. It instantly made me think of the artists - musicians, filmmakers, actors,etc\u2026they \u00a0are the kind of people who are doing \u2018dangerous\u2019 and bold things. People look up to them and secretly (and not so secretly) admire them for their talents, and more importantly, for their courage to remain dreamers.\nStyle.\nWhat is it? Who has it and who doesn\u2019t?\nFor me, Style is grace. Style is character. Style is like charm but much cooler. For me, You have style when you're doing 20 things at once but you still have the ability to laugh. You have style when you have a\u00a0fashionable\u00a0and graceful way of doing something which makes people love you or hate you (but not because you're annoying but because you're evil;-p).\nAnd I think you do not have style when you\u2019re trying to be somebody else, when you\u2019re whining too much, when it\u2019s too obvious that you\u2019re trying too hard to impress others. When you can't think of anything else but your album sales. When you're too worried to lose something or to ruin something.\nIn \u00a0other words, when you're taking your music career and yourself too seriously that you become a boring\/ annoying person.\nNow, I do not mean you should always play it cool. I am an avid fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/blog\/grunt-work-building-music-career\/\">grunt work<\/a> and I believe it\u2019s the shortest path to success. What I\u2019m talking about is that try your hardest, work real hard on achieving success in your music career, but as much as possible do not look desperate and never make desperate moves or say desperate remarks. Never step on other artists just to get what you want. Never say bad things about other artist because gossiping is never classy. Don\u2019t take everything too seriously. And never let the music business ruin your relationship with music.\nHappy Friday!\n________________________________________________________________\n<strong>Unified Manufacturing<\/strong>\u00a0is an L.A. -based one-stop-shop that offers very affordable CD\/DVD\/USB replication, custom printing, promotional products, warehousing and fulfillment and many more. If you need an Instant Quote on a project and you want FREE SHIPPING, simply\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unifiedmanufacturing.com\/instant-quote\/\">CLICK HERE<\/a>.]]>    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>grunt work and I believe it\u2019s the shortest path to success. What I\u2019m talking about is that try your hardest, work real hard on achieving success in your music career, but as much as possible do not look desperate and never make desperate moves or say desperate remarks. 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