1. It's more fun to play for an audience - after all, music should be a dialog with the audience
  2. It's a natural high - a legal drug so to speak
  3. Did I mention it's fun?
  4. It pays the mortgage
  5. Did I say it's fun?
  6. Playing music to an audience is like telling a joke. If there is no one there to hear the joke it's incomplete - if there is no one there to hear the music it's incomplete
  7. Besides, it's fun!
  8. It creates an emotional bond with the audience - it's not really an ego thing because as I said, it's a dialog, a partnership, the audience feeds the musician who feeds the audience who feeds the musician - it's like sex without the physicality
  9. And it's fun
  10. It allows you to take a tax deduction on your instruments and the mileage to get to the gig
  11. Did I say it's fun?
  12. It's a great way to meet members of the opposite sex (don't tell your wife this) - and if I didn't play music for a living, I wouldn't have met the most important woman in the world to me, my wife.
  13. and doesn't she know it's a lot of fun? That's why they call it playing music


I can't imagine my life as anything other than a professional musician. It's not what I do, it's what I am.

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