Well, I was walking by a closet and Daddy heard my sister screaming to be let out. He opened the door, and my sister was nowhere to be seen. I had thrown my voice, and he thought this was just terrific. You either do it or you don't. You can learn to do it better.
Musical ability is related to musical memory, and some people have different potential than others.
Everybody can play an instrument, anybody can learn to sing, but I'm talking about doing it really well. But the reasons for doing music are not just in order to do it very well. Music contributes so much to the life of an individual, and I don't just mean the esthetics. Music training, music lessons, singing in a choir, playing in a band, add enormously to a child's self-confidence, to your sense of power over material that you don't know. If you study music, you learn that you can start on nothing, and if you stick to it, you'll get it.