Quitting

  • Thread starter Thread starter brendandwyer
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Have you ever wanted to sell all your gear and quit recording

  • Yes

    Votes: 165 39.1%

  • No

    Votes: 257 60.9%
  • Total voters
    422
Yes I have felt that way, but I actually did it..I have been in such a rut trying to write..I have not finnished a song in months..but I have spent all my time buying gear and reading about gear..I got fed up and sold most of my mic's, my 003, my preamps, some cables...and guess what..I still cant seem to write!!! Sure do miss my gear though.:mad:..Im just waiting for tax season now!!!!:D
 
My primary drive in music is to master my instrument (voice, guitar or harmonica, depending on where in life you might have met me), not recording, but once, I sold everything except one guitar, and it sat in it's case for almost fifteen years, almost untouched. My life just went in a different direction. Then, I saw a 2nd-tier (Ventura) 12-string at a garage sale in 1998- $35 and it was mine. That got me playing, every day for several years, now at least 3-4 times a week.

So, I can understand the temptation to just get out of the whole thing, and frankly anyone who would shame another person for those feelings needs to work on their empathy skills...
 
i've never thought about about quitting, but only because i'm relatively new to it . i'm just posting to keep this thread up because there's a lot of interesting stories.
 
I hate to say it but yes I have thought about selling everything. A friend I worked with and I had a LOT in common muscly parted ways. I was hurt so bad that every time I listened to some of the music her and I talked about I would get very depressed and just gave up on my music for a short time. But thinking back I will never let anything get between me and my music again.
 
The only time I think about quitting a hobby is after I've already quit. Usually this coincides with me finding another hobby. I won't quit the one so much as just find myself doing the other instead.

Selling the old gear only occurs to me when I need money for the new hobby's gear. Like now I'm thinking that I could buy a fairly nice mic pre if I sold all my climbing gear - a rack of pieces becoming a piece of a rack.
 
Good lord, what an awfully old thread. Yet it's a perennially relevant question.

If you can quit, do. It's a hard life, and there are plenty of other fields in which you can have a easier existence.

But if, like me, you have no idea who or what you would be if you weren't making music, then the question answers itself.
 
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