“I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one.”
Virgil Thomson
Here is the entire quote by Virgil Thomson: “I’ve never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.”
In my lifetime, I have never been able to prove this wrong. I have met musicians that definitely had regrets, but never one that regretted being a musician.
As a musician, I recognized early that this is the one passion that will continue to grow with me as I experience life. I believed this so much that when I was in college and at the crossroads of what I was going to study, I chose music. Music was a pillar for me and the only consistent thing I had that I could claim all to myself. Music would not falter, music would not leave me, music would never talk back to me, and my music would continue to grow over time. This at least was my logic at the time. It wouldn’t be until later that I would really understand what my choice really meant.
