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Inspiration/Creativity/Motivation / Re: What Makes Music Worth Your Time?
« on: February 11, 2016, 11:31:16 am »
Is it really productive to think of life as a series of sacrifices? You have limited time at your disposal, so you have to choose what you do with it. Might as well be something you have fun doing.
This line of thinking gets you nowhere. If you don't like writing music, why would you insist on wasting MORE of your life to that?
If you accept music as a hobby, then you really shouldn't stress too much about this. Take a break if you feel like it, and just continue to improve yourself. What is it about Madeon's music that makes it better than yours? Whatever it is, work on that. And don't be afraid of having that nine-to-five job; Einstein did his most important research while he was working in a patent office.
If you do want to make a career out of music, you need a realistic plan for how to make money. It's bound to cause suffering if you just hope that one day you will wake up a rock star.
I've reached a point where I've come too far and given up too much to stop writing music. However I feel like I'm having somewhat of a quarter life crisis when it comes to thinking about whether all that time was worth it considering the things I had to give up because of it. I'm at a point where my music isn't good enough to be profitable and yet I've already dedicated so much time to the art.
This line of thinking gets you nowhere. If you don't like writing music, why would you insist on wasting MORE of your life to that?
If you accept music as a hobby, then you really shouldn't stress too much about this. Take a break if you feel like it, and just continue to improve yourself. What is it about Madeon's music that makes it better than yours? Whatever it is, work on that. And don't be afraid of having that nine-to-five job; Einstein did his most important research while he was working in a patent office.
If you do want to make a career out of music, you need a realistic plan for how to make money. It's bound to cause suffering if you just hope that one day you will wake up a rock star.