Make music passion

Musicians don’t have to follow the same sad path that many take in their 20’s and 30’s. If you’ve lost your passion in music, it doesn’t mean it has to be gone forever. By setting up a creative practice that’s sustainable, musicians can rekindle their passion. So many of us suffer from an all-or-nothing mentality in making music. Though this blank can be filled in a thousand different ways, it doesn’t matter because basing your success off any single thing in music is unrealistic. To rediscover passion in music, lots of musicians will have to identify old habits of pressure and expectation and ditch them. If you aren’t making music because the well of inspiration has run dry, simply making the time to get back into the game means you’re successfulEveryone’s reason for making music is different, and so are the reasons why many musicians lose their passion. But in the same way that writing a solid song takes work and sacrifice, rediscovering or keeping a music practice alive isn’t easy. If you feel jaded and lost when it comes to making music, you can change the story, but not without effort.

Add in the fact that as musicians age the non-musical aspects of their lives become louder and more pressing, and it’s easy to see why so many people stop making music after their twenties. An image of someone at a desk job reminiscing about the good old days of being in a band comes to mind. Lots of perfectly talented musicians trade in their dreams for lives that are financially and emotionally safer with claims that they weren’t good enough to keep making music. But the truth is that when musicians lose their passion, the world loses something as well. Individual musicians lose a vital creative outlet and the rest of us lose the music they would’ve made if they wouldn’t have quit.