Why do musicians stop making music?

Countless examples of amazing artists, writing song after song, and then one day, they just stop, and you never hear from them again.
Do they just get burned out? Bored? Can't do it anymore?

A few return to play the old music, but they just don't seem to write new stuff. What's the deal with that?

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Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

These days it's probably down to control over use.

Roger Daltrey of The Who recently said that the digital age means you either have to create an exclusive fee paying website in order to make your work accessible only to those prepared to pay exclusively for it or you have to do deals with the likes of Amazon or YouTube or Spotify that are worse today than when they were at the height of their fame in the late 60's.