I just came across this quote today & thought it was pretty funny and holds true for music too -
“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.”
Moliere
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Music is Like Prostitution
IF - By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And [...]