Dear Creative: A Letter for Freelance Musicians
Dear Creative,
Life as a musician is beautiful, messy, deeply fulfilling, and complex work.
It starts within—a desire to do work that matters, to make a difference; a yearning for beauty; a spark of creativity. It requires you to take risks, listen, adapt, and live with abandon.
It’s what all artists do, really. We dream, we try, we create, we innovate.
There will be good days, times when you feel like you are making a difference, creating something beautiful, and truly serving people.
And, like anything in life, there will be hard days mixed in, as well.
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