James Baldwin’s 1974 novel, If Beale Street Could Talk, has a passage about pursuing a career in music that is still relevant today: “She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn’t a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demanded a whole lot more than a voice.” Musicians who come to this realization -- they all eventually do -- must make a choice: Accept all that comes when a career becomes a life to endure, quit show business like the character in Baldwin’s book, or change with intention, rebuilding yourself from the residue of a dream deferred.