IS IT TOO LATE TO BECOME A PRO MUSICIAN?? THIS IS URGENT!!!?

-So i'm a seventeen yr old started learning the flute few yrs ago, just recently i sat for the grade 3 flute music exam, i think i did well. i've always liked music, especially the flute. but my flute tutor said that it's a bit late for a seventeenager to become a succesfull and professional musician. the point is that i luv3 the flute, and want to study music in the states, where i assume a lot of ppl r gonna be much better than me? I want to be famous and really good at music. i wanna go big or else i'll just go home... please, wise ppl out there, help me by telling me.You're 17. At your age, people who are going to become professional flautists are playing at a much higher grade and preparing their auditions for music schools. Most of them probably played their Grade 3 exams many years ago.



Flute players are a dime a dozen here. You would have to stand out among all those who passed your level long ago just to get into a music school. Then, since there are way more students graduating with degrees in music than there are jobs opening, you'd have to be near the top of the heap that got into music school if you wanted to get a job.



Loving the flute is not nearly enough for a career in music. You need talent, ability and experience far beyond what you seem to have right now. There will be young teens here who know nothing about what the music world is like who will tell you to "follow your dream," but I'm here to inject a dose of realism.well . . it's great if you love something that much, and one would hate to dispell your eagerness . . however . . if your teacher is telling you this . . perhaps it is because at your age . . you may need to have progressed much further by now . .

I don't know . . I'm just suggesting though
it depends on where you live where you study flute and who you study with. there are some great programs in america and some great programs other places. if your heart is where it is then your heart is where you should follow...



if you created a band or joined a band maybe you could make a new hip band with a flutist in it. are you called flutist?
You wont be famous and yes it is too late unless you are a prodigee which it sounds as though you are not. Classical instruments only have "real sucess" in renouned orchestras and with Juliard there are enough brilliant musicians to go around.
its probably to late for you to go to school for it and become a pro NOW. but, you can always go back to school wen ur ready, get another degree, and then become pro.