Music Producer Gavin Brown on “what it takes”

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You know, and it’s nice to be at the level where, you know, I’m getting referrals from, you know, from you and from people who are at that professional level who are committed to doing work. Because it takes work.
And it takes time. And it takes time. You got to be patient with it. I had a drum teacher on my early 20s, a guy named Jim Blackley, who’s a legendary drum teacher in Toronto. And, you know, he’d say in his Scottish accent, “I won’t be on the bandstand with you tonight, son.” Yeah. You know, like, you know, you got to do the work, you know, and he, you know, when I see him once a month and, you know, the minute I sat down, he would know by my body posture if I’d been practicing. He’d know that, you know, like, you know, there’s no fooling anybody.