David Senra

That's what will help you make crucial sense and powerful music as time passes, giving you the skills that may also keep you alive, creatively and physically.

The failure of so many of rock's artists to outlive their expiration date of a few years, make more than a few great albums, and avoid water treading are worse.

I felt was due to the misfit nature of those drawn to the profession.

I think this is also true for entrepreneurship, by the way.

This is why I'm reading this to you.

I felt that was due to the misfit nature of those drawn to the profession.

These were strong, addictive personalities fired by compulsion, narcissism, license, passion, and an inbred entitlement, all slammed over a world of fear, hunger, and insecurity.

That is a Molotov cocktail of confusion that can leave you unable to make or resistant to making the leap of consciousness a life in the field demands.

After first contact knocks you on your ass, you better have a plan.

Some personal development will be required if you expect to hang around any longer than your 15 minutes.

Now, some guys' 5 minutes are worth other guys' 50 years.

And while burning out in one brilliant supernova will send record sales to the roof, leave you living fast, dying young, leaving a beautiful corpse, there is something to be said for living.

Personally, I like my gods old, grizzled, and here.

Aging is scary, but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

In a transient field, I was suited for the long haul.

I had years of study behind me.

I was physically built to endure and by disposition was not an edge dweller.

I was interested in what I might accomplish over a lifetime of music making.

So assumption number one is you're going to keep breathing.

He prioritized endurance and durability and longevity.