I juggled both music and software for many years before deciding to focus on music (almost!) exclusively. This is a somewhat reductive analysis, but in my exper

I juggled both music and software for many years before deciding to focus on music (almost!) exclusively. This is a somewhat reductive analysis, but in my experience a successful performing or composing career doesn't require concert pianist-level perfection. Curiosity, honesty in one’s artistic expression, some degree of uniqueness and, finally, a dogged persistence, will suffice. Granted, it can be difficult to have that dogged persistence particularly given the economic parameters that musicians are subject to. So it is not for everyone. (I never had concert pianist talent or technique, but it still did take me many years to shed the “louder/faster/denser” ideology of a modern jazz education. Also known as, lacking taste and maturity in one’s earlier years.)