Legends have inspired emulations and thesis on how to make better choices and decisions to make the best uses of the chances in hand . But what we lack essentially in our approach , is : our ' perspective '.
SOUVIK CHAKRABORTY
Legends have inspired emulations and thesis on how to make better choices and decisions to make the best uses of the chances in hand . But what we lack essentially in our approach , is : our ' perspective '.
The fundamental problem in believing a legend to be a prodigal talent or an enigmatic ascetic takes us far from the man himself . We don ' t see the blood stains and the scratches and the twisted tales behind the man himself . A musician need not be a vagabond and disruptive person Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart enthralled generations with his ingenuity and raw talent . But what else can an ordinary musician learn from the ecstatic extraordinaire . It is pretty simple and familiar how a little more could mean so much to one ' s faculty .
Die many times before you survive the mockery- Though a depressing thought . Remember , no matter however original your scores are they are just unfolded chits of paper from some trash can . Mozart never stopped re inventing lest he becomes a show piece . He had tried his luck at getting flogged and ripped apart with criticism to the point of ghostwriting , but he has not ever given up on hanging up his boots thinking the world cannot afford another harmony .
More interesting is the fact , that as a musician you can be a great liar . You could sell off music calling them your midnight summer dream visions . And , Mozart was in a real catch to play the sleight of hand , but instead he took up sand , and water to burn them into bricks of his foundation ; which scholars would dissect on an altar for ages to come .
Can ' t get enough- miseries had a listless enamour on the life of the master himself . And you thought your piano sucked out passion out of you ? Mozart had seen it all from child loss , tumultuous relationships , death and sickness . But Mozart did not get snatched for so cheap from the world of music . His music could almost uphold an analogy of a mother nourishing a foetus with her placenta .
Practise like there is no tomorrow- It does not matter if you are starting at the bottom or silver spooned at an younger age . Mozart started at an age when we got tired too soon completing our school lessons . If you love your strings let it strum like your fingers are the wind . The more one practices , the more profound he sounds as a musician , for the music seeps down the soil of the surface tensions of low bred feelings and emotions . The more you play the more you unpeel the layers of a piece and eventually there is more heard than sung , you know your music has served its purpose of being the soul connection between the tune and the tuner .
Don ' t rest until your creative enzymes have not digested the creation to the core . A genius mind builds his castle when the world cannot see it being made . Mozart woke up early in the morning and delivered the best , what ' s your clarion call for the unshackling the rust on your juices . Wake up like it ' s birthday and go to sleep believing your ear cells might disbelieve that there is a thing called music in this world .
Genius minds had already been pillars of wonder for us . We have revered and looked up in amaze on the statues of the past , but never for once have we scratched the rock to get the dust under our nails . The big shots like Beethoven and Mozart and the zillions of genius make way for a musical learning that is above the notations and scores on a music sheet !
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