If you are...

• a music teacher and experience twinges of guilt thinking about the kind of life you are getting your unsuspecting students into, this book will help ease your conscience...
• an established professional performer and always wondered why your career has never taken off, this information can help get you back on track...
• a young professional classical musician and thinking about quitting to get a full time non-music job, I hope this book reaches you in time...
• in graduate school and desperate about your future, this book is the only one I know of that tells the truth about what it takes to be a success in the Music Business...
• a senior in college and trying to decide about graduate school, entering some other aspect of music or getting out in the "real" world, this book is a must...
• an undergraduate and wondering what might lie ahead, you should be lying down when you read this book...
• in high school and thinking about majoring in music at college, you and your parents should read this book and then have a long talk...
• the parent of an aspiring musician and nervous about your child's adulthood, this book is probably going to confirm your worst fears...
• an amateur musician and pondering whether you made the right career choice, reading this book will be a relief...

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