stop generalizing!
Native Instruments Layoffs?
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- addled muppet weed
- 111327 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRAF
- 2772 posts since 28 Mar, 2007
Its not so much that a musician cannot run a business - its more the case that being a musician and running a business are not mutally compatable. Both require focus and dedication, and inevetably it will be a case of giving up one for the other.Hink wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:18 pm
All I ask is proof that there is anything about being a musician that would preclude a musician from managing a multi million dollar business.
The suited guys they have bought in are focused 100% on making money. Thats what they love doing, and they do it well.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
again facts please, I'm sorry you cant just make such a blanketed statement without backing it up. Now the suggestion is we know where their focus lies and better still we know that musicians give up on their music due to their business...really, how utterly absurd is this argument gonna get..prove itdellboy wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:40 pmIts not so much that a musician cannot run a business - its more the case that being a musician and running a business are not mutally compatable. Both require focus and dedication, and inevetably it will be a case of giving up one for the other.Hink wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:18 pm
All I ask is proof that there is anything about being a musician that would preclude a musician from managing a multi million dollar business.
The suited guys they have bought in are focused 100% on making money. Thats what they love doing, and they do it well.
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111327 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
musicians are useless at cooking.
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
HNB™ FTW
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111327 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- KVRian
- 1045 posts since 13 Feb, 2013
So glad that we have all these smaller plugins developers... and can just forget about these marketing driven monsters which want to lure into a 'service' instead of a quality product.
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- addled muppet weed
- 111327 posts since 26 Jan, 2003 from through the looking glass
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- Rad Grandad
- 38041 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
because you're suppose to eat my brownies, not smoke them
The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another's world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding.
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- KVRAF
- 11000 posts since 15 Apr, 2019 from Nowhere
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- KVRAF
- 2814 posts since 26 Jul, 2015 from Philadelphia
Making music and running a business are separate and somewhat divergent skills. As these things usually go, multi talented people are rare in general. But as somebody who works in a College with a fairly good music industry program (Andrew Aversa from Impact Soundworks is one of our alumni) I can assure you that there are people who excel in doing both.dellboy wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:40 pmIts not so much that a musician cannot run a business - its more the case that being a musician and running a business are not mutally compatable. Both require focus and dedication, and inevetably it will be a case of giving up one for the other.Hink wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2019 3:18 pm
All I ask is proof that there is anything about being a musician that would preclude a musician from managing a multi million dollar business.
The suited guys they have bought in are focused 100% on making money. Thats what they love doing, and they do it well.
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- KVRAF
- 2772 posts since 28 Mar, 2007
No need to prove it, theres nothing to prove.
I agree with you.
A musician can become a successful business person.
A business person could also become a successful musician. There are no universal laws precluding either eventuallity. But general rules of human behaviour tend to one conclusion or the other. But of course there are always exceptions that prove the rule.
But juggling two sets of balls - "may" - mean that one or the other will win in the long run. But there is always the chance that some super person can do both at the same time.