In the area of art, I have been playing music for 40 years, never made significant money off it.
Absolutely all the highest highs I've had were while playing music. For me, it is an end in itself.
I walk around all day with melodies running through my head.
I don't think I'm that talented, that doesn't seem important to me. Probably a few musicians per century are great enough to be remembered, and I'm definitely not one of them. THOSE people sort of know who they are I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
I wasn't so driven as to be practicing 8 hours a day. I figured I should learn something else so I could be productive. So I started learning programming when I was about 28 to get out of menial jobs.
But FIRST in life I put the thing I loved.
But I've always continued playing. You should HAVE to create the thing if you are really an artist.
It's like an orange tree growing oranges. It doesn't really matter what it thinks or wants to do. It's an orange tree.
I've heard there's a saying from the Mideast about music:
Fast for three days, then have delicious dishes cooked. If you still prefer music, become a musician.
If I fell over and died right now, by far and without doubt, the happiest thing I remember would be music.
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
--Nietzsche
Absolutely all the highest highs I've had were while playing music. For me, it is an end in itself.
I walk around all day with melodies running through my head.
I don't think I'm that talented, that doesn't seem important to me. Probably a few musicians per century are great enough to be remembered, and I'm definitely not one of them. THOSE people sort of know who they are I think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Debussy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlvUepMa31o
I wasn't so driven as to be practicing 8 hours a day. I figured I should learn something else so I could be productive. So I started learning programming when I was about 28 to get out of menial jobs.
But FIRST in life I put the thing I loved.
But I've always continued playing. You should HAVE to create the thing if you are really an artist.
It's like an orange tree growing oranges. It doesn't really matter what it thinks or wants to do. It's an orange tree.
I've heard there's a saying from the Mideast about music:
Fast for three days, then have delicious dishes cooked. If you still prefer music, become a musician.
If I fell over and died right now, by far and without doubt, the happiest thing I remember would be music.
"Without music, life would be a mistake."
--Nietzsche