“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory-” -P.B. Shelley

How does one distinguish themselves
As a true musician?
Is raw musical talent defined
By forcing a series of sounds out of an inanimate object?

A true musician knows otherwise
Much less a skill to possess-
Music shares more similarities to poetry
Than to any field of academia

To be a musician is to express
To evoke emotion through a change in key signature To feel pain through a single crescendo
To be inspired by a single measure

So, you believe that music is your calling?
But does music call to you?
Does it speak to you on a deeper level?
A connection far beyond notes hung from a staff

To be a musician is to possess the extraordinary ability
To create words in the absence of voice
An entire narrative composed of a series of black and white scribbles
That grasp the mind and carry it to a far off place

Very few have succeeded at becoming the epitome of music
It requires beyond what technical training can provide
Music requires passion, and the absence of it
Music is merely noise.