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Hi. Um, I'm Shell Louisa and you're watching Disney Channel?
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No. So, um um, my so my name is Michelle
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Loaiza. And my career is, uh, music.
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Uh, and a ZX Ah.
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A little taste of because I've been a musician for
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a while.
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I wanted to start this, uh, presentation off with playing
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with one of my original songs.
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The one that's out on Spotify, iTunes and all my
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band camp.
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If you can find my link in my bio.
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Sorry about that.
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Um, this is my song called Annoys Song.
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Hope you enjoy.
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Yeah, it's only whisper on and it's loud enough to
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break the silence of, ah, crowded cafe A girl outbreak.
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She wants thio.
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I can't blame because it's our a No, just going
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back a away, You know, it's easy t o l
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upon the past.
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Mom. I'm sorry if I'm going up Thio She wants
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thio away.
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E can blame because it's hard on a I'm just
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going back because we're e It'll be hard when I
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am God But it'll be e believe me as I
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fade from your mind I still love you like I
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thio I'll be gun like the way It's on me
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a whisper and it's slat enough to pray.
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A silence of a crowded cafe Thio She wants a
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runny Oh!
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Oh, night.
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Okay on blame her because it's a tough just going
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back, cousin Word Just going back as it waas just
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going ASIO Well, but on to the actual presentation, that
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was four minutes.
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Jesus Christ.
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And to speed this up, um, my present.
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So let's let's get into the first little thing.
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So in terms of its like the one freaking name
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in terms of schooling, we have no schooling.
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Um, music college is like going to school to learn
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a new language.
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You don't need it.
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And if you're really passionate about doing it and you
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want to go to school for it, go, go for
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it. Like music.
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When you when you get gigs, it's not really, like
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preferred. It's not really like everything to like have music
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like music, college or music school experiencing, um, like, really
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good music colleges.
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That would be amazing on someone's resume.
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Like, uh, Berklee School of Music in Boston, Massachusetts Moravian.
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Right here in Bethel, M.
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P. A, uh, five towns up in New Jersey or
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Eastman in New York, we got Ohio State, and I
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really wonder where, um, these air really amazing places.
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In fact, all of these are colleges that I'm considering,
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but music school isn't really neat.
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It's like you learn music by experiencing music.
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And when you put someone in a classroom to experience,
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you don't really get the experience.
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You have the experience, you feel me, you know, your
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jazz, it air, you jazzing.
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That's a reference to Seoul.
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I washed that last night, and it was super good.
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Um, yeah, so it's not really the real reason people
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go to music school in any shape, way, shape or
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form is just connections, and it's very useful in that
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realm. But otherwise you can go to it.
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You could not go to it.
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You're probably I mean, it's probably better if you do,
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but, like, not damned if you don't.
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But U s a Mr Current on a way different
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topic. Actually, she like Hershey Kiss, have a bag, you
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know, anyway, So in terms of the articles that we
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have read, I've learned a lot from them.
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Um, specifically, I learned a lot about the way music
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is at the moment What the industry is like the
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moment. Like, um, I read this article about this, like,
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musical arms race where a lot of companies are shifting.
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Sorry, I have to move my chair over its breaking.
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And I hate that, um, where the music industry is
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more going towards, like, samples and, um, the bedroom producer,
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as opposed to, you know, music consumerism.
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This year has been where the musician, where the music
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consumer and the musician have become one because you know
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what? The availability with program like programs such as Reaper
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Free programs or Sound Trap, where it's so easy to
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get into it.
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Um, another article that I, um red was like keeping
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your music station organized, which I didn't take heed of
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that you could see the mess on my bed.
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It's bad, but, um, a lot of keeping your music
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and your station organized.
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I did actually use some of that knowledge.
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I like.
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I like make my tracks before I start recording them,
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Um and, like, name them before I start recording on
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them. E learned that electronic music doesn't necessarily do you
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have to be lonely, which, um, is lovely, because with
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the way the industry is like right now.
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Elektronik music.
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It's really hard to steer away from, You know, of
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course, I try and be as acoustic as I possibly
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can, because that's all I know.
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Um, but I still I do dabble with electronic music
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production, and it's fun when I dio and learning that
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you don't have to do it alone like you can
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make music together, even whether it's just a keyboard or
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even when it's just a computer you can still make
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music together is such an amazing thing that I only
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learned because of reading these articles because I was so
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scared of electronic music.
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Yeah, for him.
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But oh yeah, Ah, cool thing that I learned.
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Sorry, I had my second monitor appear, which has, like
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all my information, bedroom production has boomed with female and
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non binary artists.
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I have found that out, and I love that because
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this gets more representation, not just from the people who
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are, like, you know, famous and like, ah, that that's
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happened to me non binary, thes air.
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This puts representation of people that you could just know,
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like, um, artists like Frack Siem or 100 jacks like,
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um freaking not bad bunny.
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And he's a Hispanic guy, Um, Beach Bunny.
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That's the name like bands like Girl in Red, The
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Boom in Queer Music Because what I like to think
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because of the pandemic has, like, been amazing, which I
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wouldn't have learned unless I literally looked that up.
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Queer means like the pandemics effect on clear musicians like
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bedroom production like bedroom, pop and electronica that sounded like
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you could combine those words to be pop Tropical.
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And I just realized that I didn't put that in
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the script, but I noticed that, um, like, that's such
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an amazing thing.
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But since we're on the topic of the pandemic, I've
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also learned that music's coming back, and it's It's so
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weird saying that because I never thought I would because
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we've been in this for so long.
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Maybe it's not in performing music.
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Maybe it's in just a music museum, which is where
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that articles based off of I kind of really breached
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for that one.
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Don't don't think about that.
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Please don't think about that when you're giving me my
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great Um, it's just so weird seeing that there is
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a resurgence again within music because we never thought about
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we never I didn't even think this would happen.
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Now, let's go on to another subject that I had
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to do a lot of research on which I never
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thought I would, because I was very naive.
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Um, music business.
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I read a book by Daniel Donald s Passman, uh,
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called, um What you need to know about music business.
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Now, there's some amazing quotes that I have from that
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book. Um, such as, um, a rock star and a
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brain surgeon have something in common.
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I kind of really want to stop the quote there.
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But so a rock star and a brain surgeon have,
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uh, something in common.
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Each one is capable of performing his craft brilliantly and
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generating huge sums of money without the need for any
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financial skills.
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Passed men in the page four.
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That's such a really cool thing.
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I'm sorry.
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I just really like that quote or such absolute bangers,
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like no creative work has ever product of one person
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alone. Like electronica, music doesn't have to be lonely.
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That also ties in with some of the things that
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I learned the article that doesn't even plan for that.
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But that's cool.
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Um, the more listens you get, the less money I
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make, which is a commentary on, uh, the way streaming
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service's have impacted to the music industry.
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Which is kind of sad now that you think about
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it. Really makes you think of the one John Philip
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Sousa quote where, like the recording of music will be
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the death of performance, which we don't like to talk
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about that because that's where everything that I do and
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I love John Philip Sousa.
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But anyway, um, or you think of your you gotta
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think yourself as a business which also ties in tow,
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being your own musician, as well as like being your
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own marketer.
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Ah, lot of this book told me to be your
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own manager and be an excuse my French, but be
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an asshole about it, like really put it like jam
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it down people's throats.
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Phrasing. Um, just really put it in people like what
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you do and what you're doing.
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Like I do commission music.
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I push that out as much as I possibly can.
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I do voice acting.
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I push that out as much as I possibly can.
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You are your own boss.
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You are your own manager and therefore you are your
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own marketing.
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And that's a lot of what this book talked about.
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Now final notes.
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That's a pun C Final notes, but okay, um, this
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made me research the thing that I love more than
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anything in this world, and that is music.
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And I could not be more thankful to have the
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opportunity to talk about music for 15 minutes straight.
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I'm sorry.
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That's the end of sentence, but I I just really
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wanted to leave off with a quote that really resonated
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with me that I saw a lot whilst working on
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this project.
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Um, anybody can write.
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Anybody can write music of any sort, But touching the
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public heart is quite another thing By John Philip Sousa.
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I don't do music for anyone else but myself, and
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you kind of have to have that mentality when you
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go into this career because it's so hard to get
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money within this career, it's so hard to be famous
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in this career.
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It's so hard to get into it to the point
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where you have to make music for yourself the moment
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you start making music for other people.
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For the appealing of other people, you have failed because
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there is no reason to adapt yourself to other audiences
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that aren't yourself.
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It takes the passion and would therefore be the death
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of music.
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I'd like to leave off this presentation by doing something
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that I've always wanted to leave something off with.
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Eso Here goes, um, a have a nice Chris.