As an artist, the gift that music brings you is what you experience when you write it and when you play it.
It owes you nothing else.
It doesn’t owe you a career.
(The funny thing is that once you truly understand and act on this you’re more likely to have a career in music)
The gift is being able to write the song, or to play the song.
Don’t run past this gift so quickly in search of more.
p.s. If there isn’t joy, fulfillment and hope that regenerates within writing and playing the song (in and of itself, at the time you are participating in those activities), it might be that 2017 is the year you move on from writing and playing songs.
p.p.s. There’s a vast difference in hoping to experience hope, joy and fulfillment in writing the song or in playing the song vs. those things ACTUALLY occurring. Many artists mistake their hope for fulfillment, etc as the actual thing…Which makes an artist constantly reach into the future (but never actualizing) as opposed to realizing the value in/and experiencing in the present gift of music.
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I’m always interested in your perspective, whether affirming or dissenting. Continue the conversation anytime: gabethebassplayer@gmail.com