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Secret to Success

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Secret to Success

Published: Thu, 3 Sep 2009

Description: Artists on what is takes to succeed in the music business

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" Lots of kids wanna be rock stars but for the lucky few who realize the dream the road is often long and difficult. But great dance moves don't --"

" Doesn't want to be successful right. I worked really hard at latitude."

" Any musician now has to. Not only -- a -- to write a great song that that should be here and and something from their heart and soul. It's gotta build market. Separate themselves."

" Bassist -- has made it to the top twice with Guns 'N Roses and Velvet Revolver. He says you don't get there without hard work luck and good people around everybody wants to feel like a -- starts -- Rick Lorena started the metal magazine -- in 2006. And now talks about how to break into the music industry in his book do the doubles worked for him."

" I wanted to show kids that they had passion if they believed in whether it's music or movies or anything. Even though it might seem far away you can immerse yourself in that world. And all you have to do is just jump into the book includes interviews and advice from some of the world's biggest artists and industry executives what it's really about. Is living it. It's not a job. It is not a hobby it it becomes a life. And you have to be willing to completely jump into it and if you really love music. I don't see that ever precluding any thing."

" Kiss front -- Paul Stanley feels the best way to succeed is not to take advice from anybody."

" Don't listen to a life. Because advice is always tainted by the person who's saying that so. You know what worked for me won't necessarily work for somebody else -- only thing I can say that will work is following your intuition and following your gut feeling."

" So for all you budding superstars there's only one thing everybody seems to agree on Cuba in Hollywood -- it's about. Fox News."

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