My thoughts on musicians not doing covers/live performances

I've heard some people try to make this notion that every musician needs to be live performers and if they don't, then they're not truly musicians. I make music myself, but I don't like nor want to be a music performer in front of people at live time. I'm not up to that, and I'm not going to pretend to be about that life. It takes a lot of time, effort, skills, practice and dedication to do that stuff, but I don't see it as the end all-be all to music. Just because you can show how fast you are on the guitar or piano doesn't make you a better musician.

I feel doing covers is fine and all, but not a thing you HAVE to know as a musician. I've seen so many covers of many songs but then I go on their channels and their music sounds like the people they keep covering or it all sounds boring. I know a lot of people are amazed by that stuff, but I've grown to not be so awestruck at a bunch of covers and live performances just because they're doing it. There's more to music than just copying other people's music for fun or showing how fast your fingers are on a piano or how quick you can hit a drum.

I see this poor way of thinking not that much different than people thinking martial artists have to automatically get into the ring and fight people just because they train in fighting styles. Not everyone should be combat sports fighters. Just because a highly trained martial artist that doesn't compete in fighting, that doesn't mean he or she can't rough up somebody for real. Just like if a musician doesn't perform or do a bunch of live covers and rather just make music in the studio. That doesn't mean their musical skills aren't legit.

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