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There’s No Crying in Music

One of my favorite movies is “A League of Their Own,” starring Geena Davis and Tom Hanks. Most of you have probably seen this story of the All-American Girls Baseball League back during World War II.

There’s a critical point in the movie for Geena Davis’ character when she decides she has had enough and wants to go back to the life of a farm girl. Hanks’ character confronts her, and after some prodding, Davis comes clean on why she is giving up baseball and returning home. She states, “it just got too hard.”

Hanks’ response is a classic: “It is supposed to be hard…the hard is what makes it great!” Even as I write that, I get a charge. Every time I see that scene (and I have seen it a bunch), I want to say, “yeah…you tell her!”

It is so true, isn’t it? The hard is what makes it great! All of us know anything worth having is something we work for…put all our effort into.

For the artist it is especially true. Stop and think about it. As an artist, you make yourself more vulnerable than anyone. You write down your most inner thoughts, set it to music and then play it for everyone to hear. Wow! Talk about it being hard! But, as Hanks says in the movie, that is where the GREAT is!

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