Film and TV Music Licensing Opportunities For Independent Musicians Running opportunities for Film and TV placements in our Music Industry Listings back in 1992 made me the laughing stock of the music business. It was unheard of for Indie artists and songwriters to get their songs placed in network TV shows or better yet, feature films put out by major Hollywood studios back then. Nobody seemed to know much about Production Music Libraries (which are Film & TV music publishers) - what they did, how they worked, or what kind of music they needed to license to TV or Film...

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Dear Passengers, How much effort is enough? How do you know when you've given the music business your best shot and it simply wasn't enough? I saw this very issue debated on our forum. Somebody was ready to give up on songwriting because he felt that he had given it all he had, and the wall was too high for him to get over. I had three reactions to what he had written. 1) He was frustrated and wanted his friends on the forum to talk him out of quitting. 2) How badly did he really want to be in...

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Dear Passengers, It is said that, "a man's wealth can be measured by his friends." Assuming that's true, I am fabulously wealthy, indeed. I never imagined how many of my old friends would come out of the woodwork when I started TAXI seventeen years ago. Several of them showed up at the Country Songwriting seminar I did in Nashville last week, and it was great to see them all. One of them has been a friend since the '70s! One of the "responsibilities" — if you can call it that — of having so many friends that are also TAXI...

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