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Re: Realizing when you won't go pro

Author: Bassie
Date: 2005-11-17 21:12

'Move on'?

I've lain down the gobstick a couple of times. Just stopped playing for a few years. First, at University, when the competitiveness was just stupid, or so it felt to me. (Physical scientist here, by the way). Took it up again as a postgrad and learnt more in a few years playing in a quartet, earning what we could from busking and small gigs, than I had in my entire musical education up to that point. Laid it down again after touring Belgium with a friend's band - an 'act that couldn't be followed' (and the quartet had drifted apart). And here I am again playing in a local community band and discovering all sorts of new things.

Point is, my ambition was never to make money from it, just music.

You might 'move on', but that doesn't mean you'll stop playing. Music is a 'pure' subject. It exists for its own sake; it has 'intrinsic' value. I know there's pressure in the modern world to make money, to be the best player in the world in order to be recognised. But it's not about that. Every player has his or her own voice to contribute.

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