"A love of music

...and the desire to develop your talent do not require that you become a professional musician any more than a devotion to religion means that you must enter the priesthood or become a rabbi. It is not your goal that gives you the right to study seriously, but a genuine desire for musical knowledge. And this right belongs to everyone -- including the aged. For the mind, as science continues to inform us, will grow so long as it is presented with challenge and stimulus. In short, nothing should hinder our course -- nothing, that is, except the obstructions of our own making or those we allow others to impose on us." (With Your Own Two Hands: Self Discovery Through Music by Seymour Bernstein p.38)