If you're not doing it for the love of music, it's just as well to quit.
That's a nice homily, but...
I got into playing drums because of Connie Francis' boobs. "Lipstick On Your Collar" had an interesting late 50's drum part. I saw her on American Bandstand and, not to be stereotypical, she had those huge Italian boobs. I was only about 10 years old but the sap was already running, so to speak, and I figured if I learned how to play drums I could join Connie Francis band and maybe I could see her naked in her dressing room.
That didn't work out, but when I got into high school I found out that playing in a band was a sure-fire way to get laid. I also found out that I really liked being on stage and entertaining people.
Along the way, I became a pretty damn good drummer.
I'm hardly the only one to get into music for less-than-pure motives. Some of them found out they were naturally talented, but really only did it for the money, or to get laid, or whatever.
But they still made some great music!
There's a great apocryphal story...
Mick Jagger was being interviewed back in the early days by someone who was kinda dissing him because the Stones were just making great rock and roll instead of some sort of "message" music. Finally Jagger said, "How do you know that when he finished 'Blowing In The Wind' Bob Dylan didn't just think something like, 'Well, that's another one in the can'.
Someone later asked Bob Dylan what he thought when he finished "Blowing In The Wind" and he reportedly said, "Probably something like 'well, that's another one in the can'".
It doesn't matter how the music comes to be made...it only matters that it get made...
