Critics and musicians

I read somewhere (it's buried in my notes and will be found for my thesis, but not here) that music criticism is more about literature than about music. Thinking about it, I do believe that this is true - we talk about music, but criticism itself is really about the process of writing, using that as the form of communication.

So does that mean I'm not a musician anymore?

I know that changing directions certainly doesn't take away anything that I learned, or make me less able, but in defining myself, I wonder if I shouldn't be making the mental switch to being a writer.

I find that slightly scary because I don't believe that I'm a terribly GOOD one yet. Then again, I wasn't a terribly good violinist either, so maybe it should be ok.

Whether I'm a writer or not, I have to get back to producing a 150 page thesis. So, I'll be writing something, anyway.