11-11-2010, 12:00 AM
My overall goal is to improve the quality of the performances I give for Mother Earth and pacify Her Wrath in order to keep the weather moderately nice in the area I live all the days of my life.
With humans you can get away with a superficial show. Not so with Mother Nature. She 'sees' right through you and if you are thinking of other things while you are performing She can easily get bored with you. I have to play as though my life depends on it and give it EVERYTHING I'VE GOT. That means using all my sexuality and the mirror to improve.
So, what are your goals with your music? Is your biggest dream to become more technically precise? Is that the best you can do in your greatest vision of yourself? How would you want the people who hear your music to react? I've learned that the bottom line is: YOU have to be in the mood you want people to be in when they hear your music. If you want them to be amazed YOU have to be amazed while you play. The mirror helps you to see just how you are coming off when you play. If you look bored in the mirror that's how you can expect people to react when they see you play.
So, I have given you special information I learned the hard way in order to help you be the best that you can be. If you appreciate it that's great. If you do not appreciate it...that's equally great. As a matter of fact, if you don't appreciate it I will get greater rewards from the Sentient Universe as long as I was sincere when I shared the information. So sharing this information with you is a win-win situation for me. Aren't you happy for me? Of course you are, of course you are! Oh, you like me? Great. You don't like me and think I am arrogant? Equally great!
I refuse you the power to affect me one way or the other. You don't deserve that power over me and I refuse to give it to you!
I have shared these important things because I was inspired by your playing. I happen to love Baroque music and you really do an incredible job of it. I tell you there is more to a great performance than technical precision and copying what others do. If you believe me and reach for greater things, that's great. If not...equally great.
Checkmate. Ha!
*I'm doing my best to teach you that you should NEVER allow people to command how you want to feel about anything. Of course, you may have to PRETEND you are allowing them to manipulate you in order to get along with them, but YOU ultimately have the power to allow people to bring you up or bring you down. How you choose to react to any given situation is YOUR responsibility and business, not theirs
With humans you can get away with a superficial show. Not so with Mother Nature. She 'sees' right through you and if you are thinking of other things while you are performing She can easily get bored with you. I have to play as though my life depends on it and give it EVERYTHING I'VE GOT. That means using all my sexuality and the mirror to improve.
So, what are your goals with your music? Is your biggest dream to become more technically precise? Is that the best you can do in your greatest vision of yourself? How would you want the people who hear your music to react? I've learned that the bottom line is: YOU have to be in the mood you want people to be in when they hear your music. If you want them to be amazed YOU have to be amazed while you play. The mirror helps you to see just how you are coming off when you play. If you look bored in the mirror that's how you can expect people to react when they see you play.
So, I have given you special information I learned the hard way in order to help you be the best that you can be. If you appreciate it that's great. If you do not appreciate it...that's equally great. As a matter of fact, if you don't appreciate it I will get greater rewards from the Sentient Universe as long as I was sincere when I shared the information. So sharing this information with you is a win-win situation for me. Aren't you happy for me? Of course you are, of course you are! Oh, you like me? Great. You don't like me and think I am arrogant? Equally great!
I refuse you the power to affect me one way or the other. You don't deserve that power over me and I refuse to give it to you!
I have shared these important things because I was inspired by your playing. I happen to love Baroque music and you really do an incredible job of it. I tell you there is more to a great performance than technical precision and copying what others do. If you believe me and reach for greater things, that's great. If not...equally great.
Checkmate. Ha!
*I'm doing my best to teach you that you should NEVER allow people to command how you want to feel about anything. Of course, you may have to PRETEND you are allowing them to manipulate you in order to get along with them, but YOU ultimately have the power to allow people to bring you up or bring you down. How you choose to react to any given situation is YOUR responsibility and business, not theirs