How to survive rejection in the music industry

Angelle Joseph: If you feel like you're being rejected or you're trying to you know knock down a door, sending emails, getting no response, just keep trying, maybe they're just not the right person, go to another one, go to someone who's connected with them. A lot and a lot of people in my kind of job are really busy, so our priorities are what we've got to do for that week and then we'll find a window of time for new people to come in, but also, if someone says no to you, probably don't ever go to them again, but try someone else, because there's always someone else. That is ready to hear what you've got to say.

Rachel Furner: I'm sending songs out every day that no-one will reply to, no-one likes. But I have that belief that that one song, someone will like it and it will get found and it has happened, lots of times, so you know, don't sit on your laurels and just think oh I'm being rejected so there's no point.

Joshua Alamu: If you can go with the right mindset and acknowledge and accept that when you get out there not everybody's going to like it. I think you go in there better prepared.

Charlotte Carpenter: When you work in music, you're up against maybe twenty no's to one yes, and it can actually really affect your mental health and I think it's about getting the balance between being a normal human and being a musician and knowing when to say OK, let's not do music today because as soon as you start hating it, it all goes wrong.

Catherine Anne Davies You need to be mentally resilient so that and perhaps understand why you might not be picked for a particular role, say you're auditioning for a band or something like that, that it's not because you're rubbish at what you do. It's just that you're not quite right the right fit for what they are looking for.

Maverick Sabre: I had people walk out mid song when I was at labels, I had rejection by email, rejection by everything, you know. But that's where your belief is tested, use rejection as a driving force in any element of life, whether it's a relationship whether it's art, whether it's family,life, any element of rejection and use that to showcase what they're missing out by that rejection.

Paul Epworth: Just see it as fate, or spirit or whatever you want to call it, presenting you with another opportunity down the road, and if as long as you can trust that where you're open to new things, and you're open to learning and acquiring new skills and you're curious about how other people do things, then you're, your whatever happens down your journey, you'll find the path that's right for you.

Showdo: Those 'No's' help you to refine who you are.

The Amazons: You know, there's times where it's going to be tough, there's times where you feel like you're not progressing, but you know every act under the sun, and I don't know, it could be in any creative field, feel like that at somepoint.

Olivia Nelson: When I first started out there were lots of people who said I sound too young or I look too young or whether, they just don't really get it until you actually start making stuff that other people appreciate. I think when you know that it's what you want to do, there's… and I’m not good at anything else so I don't have a choice. I have to have to do this. I'm gonna do it.