Q: i am a musician and i could go hard and try to be a professional if i wanted to but then i had this realization that if i am not creating music, someone else will. and then i would be asking others to pay me for doing something that i don't even have to do in order for them to have music in their life. but then you could say that for every single job out there because there are billions of people around. i must be missing something because i can't think of a way that my model makes sense. am i missing something??
A: for me, it was the realization that [music that i think is actually as good as it should be] is so rare that i'm not even sure if i've ever found any, and yet everything that i've ever heard is so close to getting there. so that is a motivation, and a hugely inspirational goal, as well as an insane business opportunity. probably the same thing that motivates inventors