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Before anyone has a chance to notice6/9/2014 I'm convinced that the key to doing just about anything is not giving up.
I was thinking about something I heard Stevie Nicks say. She was talking about how she wrote "Landslide" while she and Lindsey Buckingham were driving through Colorado probably on the way to a gig or something. They had made their record "Buckingham Nicks" and that hadn't gone anywhere. She was 27 years old. Her parents told her, "You've been doing this for a while. When are you going to go back to school, get a real job? We'll help you pay for school, but you need to think about how long you're going to keep doing this." Lindsey got the call from Fleetwood Mac soon after that. What if she had listened to her parents? What if she had decided, "Well, Lindsey and I aren't really getting along anymore. We had this dream of doing this music thing together, but it's not working out. Maybe I should just split"? There would be no Rhiannon, no Dreams, no Rumours album, no 1978 Year of World Domination of the Airwaves by Fleetwood Mac. There must be untold thousands of super-talented people that work in banks or sell tires at Sears because they gave up before they had success. In Stevie's case it would have been a tragedy for her and for us. I think that is often the case with people who "make it" and people who don't. We love the idea of overnight success, but it just isn't real. If you do a thing long enough, someone is bound to notice. Don't give up before anyone has a chance to notice.
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