
Can you compose without playing an instrument?
When I was fourteen years old I quit learning the mridangam, a Indian percussion instrument that I had been learning for the last 1-2 years with an amazing teacher. Today when I look back upon that decision, perhaps I should have stuck with it. I might have achieved some sort of proficiency with a musical instrument, which I obviously lack today.. But what's more interesting is why I decided to quit. I quit not because it was hard work (it was) but because I had no love for C