John Mayer showed up at the Berklee School of Music and spent 3 hours imparting music business wisdom.

Mayer spoke a lot about social media and how it can really become a hindrance to creating and showing off your art. How can you create music when you are constantly creating tweets to entertain and get more followers?

Mayer says “I remember playing the guitar through the amplifier facing out the window of my house onto the street in the summer time – that was social media in 1992.”

“This time is a really important time for you guys because nobody knows who you are, and nobody should. This is not a time to promote yourself. It doesn’t matter. This is the time to get your stuff together. Promotion can be like that. You can have promotion in 30 seconds if your stuff is good. Good music is its own promotion.”

Check out the entire blog post at the Berklee Blog.