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# Looking Beyond The Music Industry For Inspiration
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/looking-beyond-the-music-industry-for-inspiration/
- Published: 2009-06-22T05:59:42.000Z
- Updated: 2009-06-22T05:59:42.000Z
- Description: It's easy to be critical of the music industry and far more difficult to offer solutions. As I wrote today on the MidemNet blog, from Bob Lefsetz to Hypebot, there. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/06/looking-beyond-the-music-industry-for-inspiration.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Uncategorized, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

It's easy to be critical of the music industry and far more difficult to offer solutions. As I wrote today on the [MidemNet blog](http://midemnetblog.typepad.com/midemnet%5Fblog/?ref=hypebot.com), from [Bob Lefsetz](http://lefsetz.com/?ref=hypebot.com) to [Hypebot](http://hypebot.com/?ref=hypebot.com),  
there are many of us who are ready and willing to share our "insider" perspectives. But some of the most educated and [![Thinker right](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2011570490af3970c-150wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e2011570490af3970c-pi?ref=hypebot.com) informative opinions about our business is coming from outsiders. 

Fortunately for all of us, some of the brightest minds in marketing,  
socio-economics, management, tech and other fields are also fans who sometimes find inspiration in music and the music industry. Just a few of the great:"outsider" minds that I've been inspired by lately include: 

- **Umair Haque**
- **Seth Godin**
- **Richard Florida**
- **Kevin Kelly**
- **Om Malik**

There a more extensive list of people that inform and inspire me from both inside and outside of the music industry on the MidemNet blog [here](http://midemnetblog.typepad.com/midemnet%5Fblog/2009/06/bruce-houghton-lately-my-inspiration-is-coming-from-outside-the-music-industry.html?ref=hypebot.com).

[Read it](http://midemnetblog.typepad.com/midemnet%5Fblog/2009/06/bruce-houghton-lately-my-inspiration-is-coming-from-outside-the-music-industry.html?ref=hypebot.com) and then please let us all know who is influencing the way that you think about the music industry. Who provides your inspiration?