Believe!!

I think one of the hardest parts of being a musician is believing in what you do. For me, most of the time, inbetween gigs I have this attitude of like..."I'm such a terrible musician who do I think I am doing this professionally"...The best of us feel this way. I heard about one of the best guitarists in the world coming off the stage and falling down on his knees and saying to his opening act..."forgive me for playing so terribly!!!!" The opening act was about to also fall on his knees and say "I'm not worthy"...he was totally amazed at the guy's talents. We are such wacky people, us musicians. Most of the time when I practice at home I feel like I can't do it, it just ain't good enough...or I worry about being so nervous on stage that what I can do at home in my living room will never become a reality when the spots are on me up there... O well...I guess it all comes down to just trying our best to be convinced that we've got something special and at least to act like it on stage...and to try to have fun doing it.
The worst thing is other musicians...always trying to show each other up, look better than the others. I'm sorry but that's the last thing we all need, we need to help each other feel good about what we're doing, even if it's not our style...and even if we were so smart that we could hear the other guy make a mistake on stage...man...don't we all make mistakes?...and if I decide to live off of my music and be poor then the least we could do is build each other up and not tear each other down.
Toodles!