Patti Page

I was reminded today of this quote from Patti Page, the best-selling female artist of the 1950s:

“Your voice dries up if you don't use it.”

What I take from this is the idea that we creative people should make sure, no matter what, to keep our hand in.

I know I have some hobbyists and part-timers and students and other people on here for whom music is the thing you keep getting distracted from. And that’s absolutely fine — everyone has their own relationship with that.

But my thought, apropos of Patti Page, is to try to carve out at least a little time, at least a couple times a week, to exercise your voice, whatever that might look like for you. It may be literally singing; it may be playing guitar; it may be poking at a mix in the computer that you’ve been chipping away at for the last six months.

Even if you use your voice for fifteen minutes a day, twice a week, that’s half an hour each week dedicated to the proposition that you still have something to say. Which I believe you do. And I think that’s a flame worth tending, even if only a little bit.

Goonies never say die — jamie