They go find a booking agent or a manager or a lawyer and they say, “Please let me work for you for free. I will pick up your dry cleaning, wash your car. I will feed your cat. I will go shopping for a gift for your wife, but please let me be here and I will follow you around. I’ll do whatever you tell me to do and you don’t have to pay me.” That’s, you know – ‘cause that’s how you break in. I mean, I have people all the time e-mailing me, people that just get out of law school that want musical odd jobs and stuff like that that all they did was focus their time on becoming a lawyer.
They don’t know anything – I mean, you know, one of the – my associates that I hired, I found him when he was in his second year of law school – second semester of law school rather. And he was my intern and then he was my assistant and then during the summers, you know – I mean, by the time he graduated and passed the Bar, he knew more – he knew how to negotiate producer agreements and management agreements, all that stuff. So it was really natural for me to hire him because it was easy for me to just give him 15 producer agreements and he goes away and comes back and they’re completely signed favorable to my client. You know what I mean? Because he learned all that while he was in law school, so he saved himself years of, you know, working for free and waiting tables at night.
‘Cause that’s really how you break in. It’s sad, but it’s true. I mean, that’s how I broke in. You know, I worked for a prominent music lawyer in Century City for free. At the time he represented Jennifer Lopez and, you know, I worked on her album. It was very exciting, but at the same time I was, you know, waiting tables at night and parking in the parking lot because I got three free hours free when I had to walk over to his office in Century City. And it only costs me $11.00 a day to go to work.
If I could sum up getting into the music business, how to break into the music business, you know, if you wanna be anything, an artist, a manager, a booking agent, a music lawyer, a business manager, you know, an A&R person, a radio promotions person, if you wanna run a record company, whatever you wanna do in the music industry, you find somebody who is doing that now and become their best friend and beg them to let you stand around and get them lunch and teach you what they know ‘cause eventually if you’re good at it and that’s – you’re supposed to be there, you find your niche, you’ll end up getting a job with that person or getting a job I that field somewhere.
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