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...There’s...an awareness that there may be musicians who don’t apply to Harvard because they’re very committed to becoming a professional musician,” Shen said...
...show to be funny but emotional too," he says. "I love the Hawkeye's-going-to-die or Edith's-having-a-hysterectomy moments. But you've got to commit to five years, and I just can't do that. I don't want to be a half-assed musician and a half-assed sitcom star." He'd rather be a full-time badass...
Jones also noted a danger of the film business. In his experience, “as a musician you get stereotyped pretty quick.” As soon as “you do hits all the colors fade away” and you become typecast as only being able to create one genre of film score. Sensing this early, he constantly reiterated, motivated his constant drive “to keep moving. Once they say, ‘oh, yeah, Quincy, he does thrillers real good,’ I go do some comedies...
...musician means you have to be bright. You can’t be a dummy,” says Yannatos. Many of his students could have chosen to go to conservatories such as Juilliard, but instead they chose to supplement their music training with a strong focus in academia. Serving as an advisor to the admissions committee, Yannatos is able to preview the music of prospective students giving him a role not unlike that of an athletic coach in the selection of admitted students. Yannatos also spends an inordinate amount of time at the beginning of each year to select...
...Eyedea if his desire for mass appeal has effected his artistic ambitions, and his response is as complex, curious and conflicted as his best rhymes. “My main objective is being the best musician I possibly can,” he says. “[But] you can’t feel good about yourself if people don’t dig your music. Music is pointless if it’s in a cave, if there’s no emotional connection anymore...