| Tim, I think that I agree with you that you go into music "because you HAVE to". At least, that's why you stay in it even though you aren't necessarily earning your income from it. To be seriously involved and committed is different from "buying a guitar" because it's cool to have one hanging on the wall or pretending to be a folkie! (OK...so I just dated myself!).
Having said that, I know people who can't carry a tune in a bucket and who have absolutely no concept of "beat" but who insist that they can play 1st chair. Obviously they have NO musical talent (that has been discovered yet) but are doing it for "some" reason. They must get something out of it or they wouldn't be doing it. Because they "WANT" to? Or are they being driven by something deeper? Is their drive perhaps the need for "peer group"? |