Rejecting Rejection

Hey everybody,

I submitted some of my songs to an A&R, and he hated it. However I did take it in stride, seeing as rejection is a huge part of this business. He was kind enough to give me some feedback about why he hated it, which is rare. However we'll just have to keep on truckin...this is a blog I wrote previously on rejection, I needed to revisit it, so I decided to post it below for all you fine folks to enjoy...
Keep ya head up

I've come to learn that the music industry, and people in general are just so fickle, forget the people who's only mission is to bring you down in order to make themselves feel better..there are genuinely well meaning people who just have a difference of opinion and taste. For instance one person may absolutely hate a record, and another person may absolutely love it. Therefore ,do you adjust your artistic standards, change your message to the world to fit just one particular persons needs? Nope, you stay true to yourself because in the end, that's what the world will want to experience, something new..something fresh, something unique to fall in love with, what do artists and writers like Alicia Keys, Sean Garrett, Mariah Carey, and Qwen Stefani have in common? They bring something uniquely them to fall in love with over and over again. At the end of the day, you only have yourself to answer to...therefore stay true to yourself, it may take longer, but the world wants to hear YOUR voice, the world needs to hear YOUR voice, not somebody's elses. Piccaso didn't paint like Da Vinci for a reason.

Great quotes than illustrate the importance of staying true to yourself:

5. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

6. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."--Western Union internal memo, 1876.

7. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.