So the real question is: can I just say, fuck everybody
else, and only compose?
Fuck all the perceived responsibilities and obligations; I
have art to do…? I mean, I actually see a way where I could do that. I see a
job I could get, with flexibility for me to do that. And I can’t even believe
how much it excites me. To the point of stomach flip flops, fer reals. My
apprehensions about it are just fear that no one will accept or like or perform
my music. I can’t know until I start doing it. I know some people will like it.
I do know that much. But I have to do it a lot, AND---AND---I have to market
myself. I have to send it to people.
Fuck teaching. Fuck conducting church choirs, as some
dues-paying bull shit, to earn my legitimacy as a composer. DO you have to have
a choir to be accepted as a composer? [redacted] might say yes…. I dunno.
I don’t want to make my money doing art because it’s messy
and exhausting and LIFE-DRAINING. And I need that life for writing music. So, day job (an actual good one, with benefits, doing something not menial, but at least--well, two cuts, let's say, above menial...), and then composing. …??
No comments:
Post a Comment