- I think it's so important as a musician,
to really realize that your career
and your musical choices really have to be in your own hands
and they have to be your responsibility
and you have to really follow what your passion is
and realize that the only person,
that's going to make it happen is you
and hopefully people will feel that excitement
and be drawn to it
and things will come of that.
For example, when I first started to play jazz flute
there really weren't many people
playing jazz flute as a lead instrument.
It was usually saxophone or trumpet.
And so I had a lot of people
you know, closed doors or have certain initial impressions
before they really heard me
that oh you know,
that's not going to really work
or people aren't going to be interested in that.
And that's happened you know,
over and over in different types of situations.
And you know i can't really let
other people's opinions determine what I want to do.
You know, you just have to follow your heart
with what you do and make things happen.
For example, I'm sure a lot of people
you know who are interested in having chamber groups
whether it's flute and piano or woodwind quintet
just as the same as right now
i have a septet you might have some specific music
that may not be
or some people may not think is very commercial
and finding someone to record a CD for you
and put it out may be difficult
especially with the way the economy is
the way the record businesses is.
But you have to really realize
that this is something that you have to
if you believe in it strongly
you have to make it happen yourself.
And I've had the experience,
where I've may decided to save up the money
and spend the money and record the CD myself.
And I've been fortunate that each time I've done that
I've had a record label buy it, hear the music
and love it and really get behind it.
But if I waited around until someone offered it to me,
nothing really would've ever happened
you know and waiting for people to make decisions
based on an idea rather than the actual product itself.
So if you believe in something that you really want to do
you have to really go for it
and make it happen yourself.
And the rest will follow.