“Many people die with
their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are
always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” - Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Sr.
It’s a story I hear often from artists and songwriters,
especially late in life. They had the music in them growing up, they had
started to pursue it, and they even had found some success. But then life got
in the way. Job, marriage, children, health issues, and other things forced
them to put music aside for the time being.
Then years went by. Sure, every once in a while they’d think
about it, play an instrument, sing a song at church, but for the most part, the
music was just a thing they “used to do”.
But it never completely went away. It never left their mind,
their heart, or their soul.
The music never died.
