You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
So for me the creative world isn__ what you do after your day job, though many professional musicians do this to make ends meet, but it__ something that IS a job. Perhaps that__ why I__ not as disheartened by the more cold blooded aspects of the industry. Over the course of watching my mother navigate the creative world I__e seen just about every trick pulled that could have been and I__e seen her deposit the checks received for a job well done. When I recently asked her why she chose the creative world she said: __arly on I decided that if I had to work I was going to work at something that I loved.____ glad she did. As difficult, chaotic, dysfunctional and crazy as the world in music and the arts can be I always knew that they mattered deeply to her, as they do to me.
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So for me the creative world isn__ what you do after your day job, though many professional musicians do this to make ends meet, but it__ something that IS a job. Perhaps that__ why I__ not as disheartened by the more cold blooded aspects of the industry. Over the course of watching my mother navigate the creative world I__e seen just about every trick pulled that could have been and I__e seen her deposit the checks received for a job well done. When I recently asked her why she chose the creative world she said: __arly on I decided that if I had to work I was going to work at something that I loved.____ glad she did. As difficult, chaotic, dysfunctional and crazy as the world in music and the arts can be I always knew that they mattered deeply to her, as they do to me.
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