RoganNRIck Lyrics

When artists are not successful yet though

It's very difficult for them to find who they are

Because they're always just trying to figure out

What's the path to success

Where success seems to be the carrot at the end of the stick

It's like, there's always this something

You know, these guys have all this money

These guys have all these cars and these big houses

How do I get that?

How do I get success?

How do I fill up an arena?

How do I become successful?

And so there's this temptation towards imitation

Yeah, it's a dangerous path

And if that's your-

if you're getting into this business for that outcome

If that's the reason you're doing it

Chances are it's not gonna work out

I don't think that

Yeah, most of the time

Yeah, that's not what makes it

What makes it great is the personal

Yeah

With all of its imperfections

With all of its quirkiness

That's what makes it great

You know, how you see the world

That's different from how everyone else sees the world

That's why you're an artist

That's your purpose in sharing your work with the world

And that seems to be the case with everything

With literature, it's definitely the case

With stand-up comedy

Everything

We experience that in stand-up comedy

Where there's these kind of derivative voices

Where they're kind of like finding

What they think other people wanna hear

And they start saying it

Because they've heard other people say similar things

That are now successful

And even if they have some sort

Of a short-term success doing that

It's not revolutionary, it doesn't change the world

It doesn't last

You know, it can be a momentary thing

But it's never the thing

It's the people who you first see and you might not like

Yhat you come to like

Because you don't understand them at first

Those are the ones that change the world

Those are the ones that you dedicate your fandom to for life