Bibliography
Music Business
Sales and Marketing
Songwriting and Creativity
Personal Growth
You become the people you hang out with and the books you read. Here are some good influences:
Their Stories
You may think that your heroes were just naturally good at things at it came easily to them. No—they may have been naturally talented, but they also worked harder than everyone else.
- Martin Atkins, Tour Smart
- Randy Chertkow and Jason Feehan The Indie Band Survival Guide
- Mark Halloran, The Musician’s Business and Legal Guide
- Ari Herstand, How To Make It in the New Music Business: Practical Tips on Building a Loyal Following and Making a Living as a Musician
- Ariel Hyatt, Music Success in 9 Weeks: A Step-by-step Guide to Super Charge Your Social Media & PR, Build Your Fan Base, and Earn More Money
- Ariel Hyatt, Social Media Tuneup: Assess, Upgrade, and Rock Your Entire Digital Presence
- Bobby Owsinski, Music 4.1
- Donald Passman, All You Need to Know About the Music Business
- Derek Thompson, Hit Makers
Sales and Marketing
- Chris Anderson, Free: The Future of a Radical Price.
- Bob Baker, Guerrilla Music Marketing Guide
- Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- Seth Godin, Purple Cow: Transform Your Business By Being Remarkable
- Seth Goodman and Barry Nolebuff, Mission in a Bottle: The Story of Honest Tea
- Sally Hogshead, Fascinate: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist
- Daniel Pink, To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Songwriting and Creativity
- Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention.
- Sheila Davis, The Craft of Lyric Writing
- Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
- Cathy Lynn, Dave Austin, and Jim Peterik, Songwriting for Dummies
- Pat Pattison, Writing Better Lyrics
- John Seabrook, The Song Machine
- Andrea Stolpe, Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling
- Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind
Personal Growth
You become the people you hang out with and the books you read. Here are some good influences:
- Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
- Stephen Covey: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
- Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- Carolyn Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- Jeff Goins The Art of work: A Proven Path to Discovering What You Were Meant To Do
- Bob Nelson: Please Don’t Just Do What I Tell You, Do What Needs To Be Done: Every Employee’s Guide to Making Work More Rewarding
- Cal Newport, So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
- Gabriele Oettingen, Rethinking Positive Thinking: Inside the New Science of Motivation
- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Their Stories
You may think that your heroes were just naturally good at things at it came easily to them. No—they may have been naturally talented, but they also worked harder than everyone else.
- Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe, Miles: The Autobiography
- Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
- Richard Kostelanetz, Conversing With Cage
- Mark Lewisohn, Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years, v. 1
- Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Ashlee Vance, Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future