Music Business For Dummies

Chapter 19

Ten Habits of Successful Musicians

In This Chapter

Taking the best approaches to your career using the best traits

Increasing the odds of building your connections and opportunities

There’s a saying that if you do something 30 times for 30 days straight, it becomes a habit. By practicing and having certain habits and traits become part of you and your approach to the music business, you have a much better chance at succeeding as well as sustaining that success for a long time to come. In this chapter, you get ten of the best habits to learn and practice on a daily basis.

Humility

Being able to exhibit genuine humility is a challenge as you may find yourself in a world of ego with many different genres. Being the greatest, the best, above the rest, and better become commonplace, especially in the media. At the same time, however, that arrogance, ego, or excess of confidence can close many doors, kill opportunities, and destroy connections.

Be confident and be assertive, but take a down-to-earth, humble and respectful approach to not just those who are above you or where you want to be, but also with the people on the same level — even with those not as far along as you. From allowing your opinion to be voiced as your opinion and not fact to describing your sound the same ...