Practicing Motivation

[ZonGuy]

When I was attending evening classes, it was passing the juries.

Now that I am working, there are 3 drivers:

1) The sheer joy of playing fun jobs and taking the music higher;
2) The envy of seeing better players get the jobs I want;
3) The agony of not getting an job auditioned for (rare , but it still stings) or not getting call backs from some A players.

[ZonGuy]

A quote I heard that is still true.

In the music business, you either going up or down and its your choice.

[chicagodoubler]

1 hunger
2 someone else is practicing right now
3 perpetual desire to achieve more
4 girls, girls, girls.

and...

1 Colin Corner
2 Christian McBride
3 Ray
4 Edgar Meyer
5 Early Jaco

[Paul Warburton]

To show the power I wield over "such an ungodly huge and powerful instrument".

[SwamiRob]

The prospect that perhaps at the next gig there may be a rider

[joel kelsey]

For me, its simple. I hate myself.

[Paul Warburton]

[emilio g]

My motivation probably stems from some kind of inferiority complex...