Will I be able to create an app?

Hello everyone,
Before I get to my question, please bear with me for just a few lines, so that I can contextualize it.
I'm a Mac user since 2006, and I'm pretty confortable with using the applications available. I'm a music producer, I work with Logic Pro, Pro Tools, Ableton Live, etc., everyday, and I also do some video editing with FCP. I know a bit of html and css, which I've learned by trial and error, most of the time, to the point of being able to create and run a website, a wordpress blog, etc.. I guess what I want to say is, although some of those fields are not the ones I've studied for, I was able to learn how to do a lot of stuff, because I'm curious about how things work and eager to learn more. I'm also a book nerd, my house is filled with books and magazines. I collect vinyl records, cds and old cassete tapes, and I was lucky enough to keep my late grandphader's entire personal library plus a plethora of his own handwritings, old documents, magazines, stamps.. All that you can imagine!
That said, a while ago I looked around to see which cataloging/database apps were available for the Mac. I did find a couple of interesting ones, and I even ended up buying Bookpedia and CDpedia from Bruji http://www.bruji.com, because those were the ones that sort of allowed me to catalog both books and music and also personalize (to some degree) how the apps would work (like using only some specific fields in the database, or changing the names of the fields, for example). But after some time, I think I pretty much got as far as I could in terms of customization, and it's still quite far away from what I wanted it to do.
So, I was wondering "why not write your own app then"? Well, because I'm kind of scared that it might be so hard that I'm just going to give up after the first try. From what I've read so far, there are plenty of resources to learn from online, from books to entire courses with video tutorials, which is great. But still, to someone that never wrote any code, do you think it would be possible for me to learn the process to the point of being able to write my own database app? Or am I day dreaming and it requires a few years of college to achieve something like that?
I'm not in a hurry or anything, and I have some free time everyday to learn, but could I get to that level by watching, say the Lynda.com tutorials about Xcode? Or is it a bit more complicated than that?
What resources would you suggest for someone to start learning?
Well, thank you so much for reading the whole thing! Your help is really appreciated
Rui

Fair question
And, to be even more fair, I have to tell you that I get that every single day. And it's getting worse (or better, depending on how you look at it).
I always try to let people know it's a long way until you get to a confortable point, a point where you can create something. And that's exactly what I am trying to do, or at least asking how/if I should do it. And then I let them know where to start. That's what I want.
Thanks.

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