A multi-instrumentalist and producer, some of his notable performances include opening for Blake Shelton, Kelly Clarkson, The Fray, and The Jonas Brothers. He has engineered, edited, and produced four albums for artists that have been released on iTunes. His credits also include film scoring the SXSW 1st place-winning film. He has performed at major venues across the U.S. and counts Jason Castro, of “American Idol” fame, among his clients.
“Money’s only good for the good it can do.”
“I was able to raise enough money to feed over a thousand people.”
“I decided to do a little fast myself to experience that myself and, once I did that, went over a day without food, I went, ‘man, this stinks – I wanna be able to help free people out of this situation.’”
“Every Facebook post, every tweet, every email I had for the Recycled EP release mentioned that the funds were going to world hunger.”
“I’ve worked on a handful of different projects, I’ve played with 13 or 14 different artists by now, played around 200 shows across the country, and all this has come from me just connecting with people. So, whenever I play gigs, I can’t help it but to just go and meet everybody in the band we’re opening up for or that’s opening up for us. I’m just a super extrovert and I love connecting with people. And so, that was something I did unintentionally and now, looking back, I’ve realized it’s driven a lot of opportunities that I’ve had a hand in being able to do.”
“My senior year of high school was when I started to actually play enough gigs where I didn’t have to work anywhere else to support myself, I could just play music and pay my bills and it’s just kind of kept on from there.”
“I now view playing shows as just a big networking opportunity, especially if I’m playing with a lot of bands I’ve never met before. So, I approach going to a conference or playing a show the same way… The more people I go out and meet and the more people who see me perform, I realize there’s a correlation to the more opportunities I was given.”
“Something I keep in my head is, ‘Okay, well if I don’t do it now, I might not ever get this opportunity to do it again.”
“No one succeeds alone. And that’s in music, that’s in business, that’s in life… We need each other.”
“Music is music and money is money and you can do both, you can play music for money and a lot of people have that opportunity, but, at the same time, you can do music for music’s sake and do something that makes money for money’s sake and really not, ya’ know what, those two get in the way of each other, which I think is really an important thing to do because then you’re more free to make the art you really want to make if you don’t have a financial obligation to it.”
“If your music doesn’t fit into the grand scheme of what you want in life, I don’t think you’re ever going to be satisfied with it. If you don’t have an answer to the question ‘Why do you write,’ you’re never going to be able to write the song that satisfies you. You’re just going to keep writing. You’re not going to know when to stop.”
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