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sideation	Date: April 19, 2004 @ 7:07 PM What do you expect to get out of your music? Some people dream of being rich & famous. Some people want to be able to live off of their art. Some people want to tour everywhere possible. And some people are incapable of doing anything but music/art. What do you want out of your music for yourself? Where do you want to be in the distint future?
onewhodreams	Date: April 19, 2004 @ 8:36 PM I used to dream of being rich and famous, I'd like to live off my music, and I would love to tour everywhere.... but realistically I just want to entertain people. Getting paid to do that would be a plus of course
geetarman	Date: April 19, 2004 @ 9:03 PM People pay me $1,000.00 be a DJ. The same people won't give you $50.00 to play live. So, just recording my music and playing it at the DJ gigs! It's perverted but it's a living. I play some live gigs during a months time but it's alot of work for little money! What I finally understood is this: People can't believe somebody really talented can be in their midst! It's better to be "out there somewhere..." People are uncomfortable around talented people especially musicians. You have to find the mix that works for you. Me. I am happy. Writing new songs and then to hear the final mix is all there I could ask for!
JR88	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 10:08 AM Rapping is kind of a hobby for me right now. I would love to play infront of live audiences and just have the ability to make music that everyone can listen to if they want, not just myself and a few friends. fayyyyyMUSS
sqrlcub	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 11:04 AM I would just like to be able to make a living from my art. I make decent money now outside of music. If I could make the same amount or more as a solo artist I would dump this job so fast.
AxedNeil	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 5:10 PM Would love to live off my music...but for now i will swing a hammer all week and live my dreams playing weekends!
pog	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 8:32 PM I kept getting frestrated with other people in my bands because a lot of the time, they wern't committed to their music enough.... for them it was often all 'bout the social scene. It upset the hell out of me.. Nowdays, I tend to record all the instruments by myself, for myself.
MonnieB	Date: April 21, 2004 @ 8:35 PM I have a job... Perhaps not the best... Perhaps not even a good one, but it gets the bills paid... I don't have the image to be a star and I don't want all the problems that go along with making music for a living... I like the fact that I'm not on a deadline, that I don't have to compromise my art because someone wants it this way or that... I just want people to listen and enjoy it... That makes me happy...
Woof	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 12:16 AM First off, I'm plainly lousy at playing the commercial game, and so that's out for me. I guess the thing for me, is to set up an interesting musical premise, and then see where it leads... and capture the exact moment when it clicks, on the recordings. That kind of experimenting fascinates me, and if I have a "dream", it's that it will fascinate others, too...
billhudson	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 10:18 AM "What do you expect to get out of your music?" Well, for me its simple...pay the rent, pay some bills, and get to the point where I am selling 5,00 CD's/year. That is the frist step. If one waiting around to have someone find you and then your a superstar, well it does not work that way. Its really simple, if one gets off ones back end you will find it does work. You just can't get there by your lonesome self. It takes a team of people who really dig what you do and want to keep helping you in anyway they can. Keep doing it no matter what! Still Pickin' Bill Hudson
jeddak	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 11:06 AM Have fun, create things of beauty, connect with other people. I like the idea of making a living at this, but I suspect I'm not cut out for full-time music business. Too many things would change, and I'd no longer enjoy making music. Realistically, I'd love to make a little money from writing/playing music, if only for the satisfaction of knowing that what I do is appreciated and valued by other people. I have to say, though, that the dmusic visitors have done a lot towards this end. I've experienced a lot of positive comments and encouragement by having my music on this site.
sinai	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 11:30 AM i wanna help the backstreet boys make a comeback
sqrlcub	Date: April 22, 2004 @ 5:20 PM NOOOooooooooooooooooo..................
MisledMayhem	Date: April 23, 2004 @ 12:07 AM good question, I'll be going to collage next year, probably studying Jazz, but what to do with it? Deep.....kill squirls by buying so many amps and turning them all up that their heads expload thus causing the squirl to become extinct, then throwing off the food chain and thrusting the world in to chaos...... but no, maybe umm I like expressing myself, i like the sound, i wish i were paid for it, but there are other things in life, being well rounded is important, my dream is to do a backflip on skis while playing Rage Against the Machine on my guitar, hooked up wirelessly to a 50ft amp. What to do with music? I guess just keep playing until i die lol MY MASTER PLAN!
fighterpilot	Date: April 23, 2004 @ 2:15 AM no sinai. dunt u dare. NNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as for the topic....hmmm. i just play and write music coz its fun and beautiful. hopefully one day i'll become rich lol but thats not really wat im aimin for
robbydadrummer	Date: April 23, 2004 @ 8:42 AM I also used to dream about the "fame and fortune" when I was young, but I gave that up after about 10 years of "earning my experience". Since then, it's been about creating music for myself. If other people enjoy, then that is just an added thrill to me. I gave up music for a couple of years at one point, and I very much regretted it. I couldn't stay away from it... it's in my blood. PS: sinai, we here in Orlando suffered through enough "boy band" crap music. Don't you dare, or I'll send them all... Backstreet Brats, N'suck, dOh-Town, LFO (Little Fucking Ornaments)... to your city! I'm sure redrasta would be ready to kick you ass, then.
johnnygnote	Date: April 23, 2004 @ 12:35 PM I want people to listen! That's all...Everything else is just icing on the cake. Future??
Rodrica	Date: April 23, 2004 @ 6:10 PM I don't know the answer to any of that...and that's why I write music I guess - always searching for something but not sure what it is. All I know is I often hate doing it, but I can't stop myself I sometimes seek approval or to find people that can relate to what I'm saying or the sound, but I rarely do music for money. The future is approaching publishers...again not for money, but to confirm to myself that I've not something right. And what's fame? I always hide behind the songs anyway
Rodrica	Date: April 23, 2004 @ 6:13 PM Another typo...that should read "got" something right.
sideation	Date: April 24, 2004 @ 12:26 AM I lived in Orlando for four years robbydadrummer. I feel your pain.
sinai	Date: April 24, 2004 @ 5:02 AM i wanna be mentioned in the linear notes of Rodricas albumn i'll settle for that
robbydadrummer	Date: April 24, 2004 @ 11:46 AM Hahaha.. thanks, sideation. It took many years, but the boy band craze is finally over around here.
victorsskull	Date: April 24, 2004 @ 10:02 PM I want to be remembered or some thing and have a band some day money isnt every thing but if I got alot for my music some day I wouldnt turn it down
Technicolour	Date: April 24, 2004 @ 11:11 PM I don't know of anything more fulfilling than writing music.
Rodrica	Date: April 26, 2004 @ 12:39 PM @ Sinai....if I ever get this album finished I'll give you a mention
Intergalacti...	Date: May 24, 2004 @ 5:06 PM Of course everyone deep doqwn would like to be rich and famous but my main ambition is to just have fun with it and mainly just get people to listenin to more than one type of music. I have quite a varied style and if one person gets into one of my songs he may give the rest of the music a chance. I'm fed up of categories and genres who gives a damn about what other people listen to as long as they enjoy it.
striPPed	Date: May 24, 2004 @ 10:15 PM yep, and i'm already on the way. a lot of fun.
100thmonk	Date: May 25, 2004 @ 12:24 AM to fill a space in my world which can be filled by nothing else. because it has always felt natural. to be heard.
ICF	Date: May 25, 2004 @ 10:39 AM I don't want to be fameous but yeah rich would be kwl! hehe i just record it for fun. Its a really cool feeling when i hear my songs properly done and played back to me
Intergalacti...	Date: May 28, 2004 @ 12:35 PM You're already rich ICFM
ICF	Date: May 28, 2004 @ 12:47 PM hey im not rich!! im just not finacially challenged either ...
Intergalacti...	Date: May 28, 2004 @ 1:34 PM no im not financially challenged your poor challenged
DevonPowell	Date: May 28, 2004 @ 1:47 PM Honestly, I think I'd like to write songs for other people who are better suited than I am to go forth and sing/play and entertain the masses. I've made a family, choices, and such that wouldn't lend to giving up all that time that would be necessary to dedicate to music (touring/promoting, recording, schmoozing, etc) to make it as a "professional musician", so for me it's a hobby. It's a release. It's something I like to do and, more so now, share with other people. I really like what Jeddak said about connecting with other people via the music...that speaks to me as well as being true. I've met some great people here that I'm hopeful to connect with in person and collab with musically which would be awesome from my point of view. I'd be happy playing local gigs to small crowds, like the coffeeshops, and getting the excitement/pleasure/happiness/etc from that level of involvement. Sure, I don't mind the daydream of fame and fortune, but the reality of it is that I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best guitarist, and I'm not the best performer; nor am I willing to give up everything for a 1:10000000 chance of "hitting it big". I know that sounds less-than-idealistic and a little cynical, but I guess I look at it as just trying to be honest with myself.
Intergalacti...	Date: May 28, 2004 @ 1:54 PM I know theres not much chance but I would love to make it big(gish). That might be my young and naive side comin out but I wouldf just love to stand in front of 20,000 people all screaming because they want to listen to my music. I know thats a dream for everyone and to be honest for about 60% of artists I've come across on here. Its achievable. I'm very naive in the way I think of things but I think thats what it takes to make it. You have to be stupid enough to think 'this can actually happen for me'. So I'm never gonna give up tryin and even if I make it big I'm gonna try and do small pub shows because those are always the greatest, but for now I'm gonna keep dreaming.
kenlinder	Date: May 30, 2004 @ 4:00 PM What do you expect to get out of your music? Well here is a depressing and long post.... What do I expect...A way to express myself, and deal with my life a little better. Sure I had other ideas once, but at first I had no idea that I had any serious talent. Then people kept telling me I did, lots of them, and when I played open mikes the professional kept giving me their cards. After the first audiance of 3000 gave me really big applause I started believeing them. So, I figured that I might eventually do OK writing music as a sideline, play a few gigs with a band...although the "dream" was to be a full time professional of course. Then the dream died. Sure I would still like to be able to make a reaonable living at music (probably songwriting as I am pretty fast and good with lyrics), and play in public and ALL that..but sometimes in life yu do not get what you want, and in the music industry you have to be able to travel...even for songwriting it is best to be able to go to New York and LA from time to time. You see a few years ago my wife got really sick. First she was really weak and in pain (wierd muslce spasms and such). Then she started having horrible reactions to everyday chemicals (newspaper ink makes her skin blister now, chlorinated water gives her bright purple skin and a three day migrain...its creepy). We coped as best we could. I did fewer performances, then the pain came along to me...and the wierd reactions. These days what I expect is to make several hundred mp3s (or equivelent) over the remainder of my life and maybe put out a CD or two. The internet is the only audiance I can have now. I use electronics a lot because I only have what my pension will buy, and I am lucky on the days where I can record guitar and not have my hands screw up the timing. Oh yes, my wife is almost a total invalid now, and I take care of her and our daughter (7) by myself...oh well...life is what you get. At least I have a lot of life experience to write from. I should record some more gothic stuff. My wife has it worse though. Her pain is horrific. SHe can barely walk at all (spent a while in a wheel chair). She was a genius (200+ IQ) as a child, college at age 9 in a program designed for her....an artists and a musician and a great actor too. SHe could have done anything. Thank you Dow, Monsanto, and all you other bastards. But hey! On the bright side, We probably won't get cancer because most of the carcinogens make me us sick to tollerate them. I have to live in the coutry and use all totally clean (non-chemical) cleansers, no perfumes, not even a dry-erase marker (they make me pass out) or a felt pen (they give me migraines). So I can live a nice long painful life, taking my morphine and living in isolation. These days I dream about air I can breath, water enough to take a real bath in, and a home that I own far enough away from any poluting neighbors. Well its 5:27 AM again, so I had better take some pills to knock me out. So that is my dream, and some lyrics to go with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Somewhere I lost my dreams like candles in the wind. Dreams are a foolish thing to lose. Back when my heart was young unravaged by the wind. Dreams were a foolish thing to choose Now that my heart is older I can see my foolish hopes were all I really had. Days past so long ago when I was very young I chose to let my dreams fall through But now that time has gone and life has sliped away I wish my dreams where here again now that my heart is older I can see my foolish hopes were all I really had Someday when I am older I will become wise and take my dreams with me Copyright (c) 1983 by Ken Linder - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This has been you regulary scheduled bitch and whine session ...we now return you to your own lives, which I hope do not require morphine for eating and sleeping. Take advantage of the opportunites that you have folks. They will not last forever.
dicktruth	Date: June 5, 2004 @ 12:02 PM I'm not bothered with being famous or rich, I just want to be in a position where I can have band practice and play shows regularly and have a comfortable life in terms of my financial situation.
synthsect	Date: June 5, 2004 @ 6:59 PM i fall under the category of being incapable of doing anything but music/art.
Vickxxx	Date: June 7, 2004 @ 5:49 AM years of working with bands, promoting my own music and soundtracks just really sucked the life out of me. Now I just love the craft of creating music and arranging and producing and I could give a rat's ass about the money. Don't get me wrong; I'd love to make money off the music, but it's not going to dominate my reasons for making music. More musical & financial opportunities have opened up for me since I have taken a more casual approach to music. Dreams of playing in front of thousands of people was one of the reasons I got hooked into music, now that's just a twinkle in my minds eye.... Dreams of making a living thru musical ventures,publishing, that indeed is where my future lays.
Intergalacti...	Date: June 7, 2004 @ 10:39 AM Its like a poem
Vickxxx	Date: June 7, 2004 @ 7:41 PM Jeez ...the things I ramble on about at 2:50AM
sepidman	Date: June 10, 2004 @ 10:07 PM Hey, what we could all do with a big ass cheque! I am happy just to be able to make a full time living from music. Get my royalties every so often and make money at the shows.
YaBoyDrew	Date: June 15, 2004 @ 1:55 PM I want people 2 put on my CD n jus be able 2 understand what Im sayin. I wanna educate n I want people 2 relate. money n Fame isnt a top priorty
figfarmer	Date: June 15, 2004 @ 7:08 PM Sober fun. That's all I want.
bayareadrums	Date: July 28, 2004 @ 1:55 AM I too would love to make playing my profession. I've done it before regionally, but now that I'm recently relocated to the West Coast, I have to start all over again. As a drummer with pro stage/session experience, I'm in a tough spot right now. Sure lots of gigs in this area are looking for talented drummers, but many of them are still either "blinded by the light" of a record deal or not talented/focused enough. I think pog is on to something. I'm starting to write my own music and I will be recruiting musicians who share my values and tastes. It can only go upward from there.
DevilsBadDau...	Date: August 2, 2004 @ 8:23 AM well it sounds silly but I only make music,´cause I love it. I love it to make people happy. Yesterday there was a very funny situation. I was with my mother in the garden and we talked about what will be if i get a contract. well,we talked very long about it,but there was no sentence about money. I´m not very interested in money,sure it´s good if you earn money,but the first reason why I make music is the passion. I´m so happy if people like what I do. If you make music only to get popular or rich, then you can´t really love it. (sorry ´cause of my bad english) I hope you understand everything I said
ENFAMALE	Date: August 15, 2004 @ 6:43 PM What I want to get from my music is to inspire, and help someone in life with the GOD given lyric I have. I want my music to go out and touch the whole world. Even if I don't get a positive response from some people. I just hope my music go out and do what it was made for. But I wouldn't mind livin of the music I create. ONE LOVE, E.N.F.A.MALE Live what you spit, but spit to live!
blacklieder	Date: August 18, 2004 @ 3:03 PM I want to write the great American standard, something that will hold up to time, like "Stardust" or You Are the Sunshine of My Life" or I Believe I Can Fly, or "From This Moment On" Then all other things will fall into place. Just one song, that's all. I ain't greedy. All I want is one song! One! The current atmosphere of trhe industry doesn't provide me with any optimism, but I still have faith.
cosmicearthgirl	Date: August 19, 2004 @ 10:38 PM I can't not make music. It's all I want. I have a day job, that's what pays the bills, but it's not what feeds the soul.
hueseph	Date: August 21, 2004 @ 3:06 AM I just want to be better tomorrow than I am today. Ultimately I just want to be able to express myself completely through my instrument, effortlessly. I love to share it but if no-one wants to listen that's fine with me. I grew up around music and musicians so I just can't help wanting to be my absolute best at it.
billrhynes	Date: September 5, 2004 @ 9:44 PM I started playing when I was 13. Now I'm 37. If I'm not creating something, I am not alive. I still get a cheezy thrill when I play a new song for somebody. I've spent so many years with different bands and have seen so many people come and go, I wonder sometimes why I still bother. I'll keep submitting demos. If I could write commercially and get paid, great. If I find that "magical" line up of musicians and we work our asses off and get lucky great, if someone from overseas sends me an e-mail saying they dug one of my tunes that they downloaded, great! It's what I do. Some people pick up a guitar and three years later they're on MTV selling a million records. Some folks slave away in unknown bands in nowhere towns, and they are musical geniuses. Somewhere in your soul you gotta believe, that whatever your situation, and no matter what the circumstances of your life are, that anything is possible, and though the odds are against most of us ever getting "rich and famous" we keep making music, because damn it all, that's what we do.
DjRiktor	Date: September 5, 2004 @ 11:45 PM Wow.. Active thread! I'm getting what I expect out of making music. For me, when it becomes a "job" or something I'm doing for a specific group of people, it's just not what I want to be doing. It's always so rewarding to know that people like what you've created, but I don't see it as anyone deserving glory for the music. We, as composers, simply discover it. So by being able to listen to, feel, and enjoy the music, I'm getting everything I could ask for. And when others join me in that also, it's more than I could. It's all for the love of music, not self, in my book.
blacklieder	Date: September 27, 2004 @ 11:43 PM I recently discovered I'm happiest when I'm in the studio. I mean, I'm pretty happy on stage, especially when I feel like I know what I'm doing, but the studio is where I can shine. If I can be paid to produce great music for any purpose...airplay, commercials, soundtrack, whatever, my wish will be fulfilled. Oh, and I must perform a musical tithe, produce and perform religious music at the Haggai accepted 10% rate.
TekoBand	Date: January 2, 2005 @ 4:17 PM Hate to see this thread fade away. Almost like a "Wishing Well" huh..? Few of you young folks will remember the song "The High And The Mighty," a contender for the Acadamy Awards best music award in 1954. Got beat out by the song "Three Coins In The Fountain." Anyway, I loved "The High And The Mighty" and from that moment on my greatest wish and ambition was that someday before I died to write a song that would contend for that coveted prize (at least it was in those days). I was a very young kid at that time. I don't think I have written that contender yet but I haven't given up even though the clock is slowly ticking down. Don't let time run out on your wishes and dreams folks.
sinai	Date: January 2, 2005 @ 4:19 PM Backstreet's back ALRIIIIIIIIIGHT!
furiousBall	Date: January 3, 2005 @ 12:56 PM I make music in hopes that I will enjoy it and that maybe someone else will too. I'd love to get into filmscoring. I'd also like to grow up to be a firetruck. I used to make music when I was single in hopes of getting handjobs from women I don't know...now, I'm back on to firetruck goal...maybe a giant robot man too, that would kick fuckin' ass.
BlackOak	Date: March 22, 2005 @ 1:29 PM ...I write music, because I HAVE to!! Creation for the sake of creation. I'm not in it for the money, girls, or the drugs.
imemine	Date: March 22, 2005 @ 3:38 PM I just want a fishstick, that's all. One little stinking fishstick. Is that too much to ask?
BOWILLIE	Date: March 22, 2005 @ 6:22 PM to make a cd with a apple on it.and produced by george martin...thats never gonna happen so..im happy here...
mos	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 1:51 AM Obviously Rich and famous lol. and touring, playing live for 10000 people n stuff. yah!
tsand19151	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 8:23 AM ...i'm doing it for the babes.....
zedsalt	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 10:56 AM I'm in it for the obscurity and abject poverty. So far, I'm pretty happy.
Intergalacti...	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 7:07 PM I just want people to enjoy it. Sure if people wanna pay me I'll take it and I do have somewhat of a dream to be famous but thats just to make the audience who hopefully enjoys my music bigger. I wanna make people feel good and appreciate the hard work that I have put into some of my songs.
leplume	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 7:18 PM what do I want out of my music? Oh crap, is this a music site? I think I'm lost...
TheFearDrone	Date: March 24, 2005 @ 11:14 PM Fame is meaningless to me. I write and perform from(and for) somthing deeper. I have however, given up too much not to recieve something from it at this point. It's not directly about the money but I do need the financial resources to continue all my art. Yep, I have the entire affliction.
happyhappyhappy	Date: March 31, 2005 @ 1:25 AM I'd like to play shows and have my songs be recognized; something simple like that. I'd also like to learn from my past mistakes; it's an ongoing reciprocal kind of thing. Of course, I've done so little I'm not even really a musician; sorry to hijack your thread, sideation.
noimportantone	Date: April 5, 2005 @ 5:37 PM I just want to create without deadlines, limmitations, or dooshbags stealing my money. I also always wanted to make enough money to raise a family, but I am sure that won't ever happen. I need my zoloft...