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Singers and Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they’ll never work again. Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment. With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life - the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. Why? Because musicians and singers are willing to give their entire lives to a moment - to that melody, that lyric, that chord, or that interpretation that will stir the audience’s soul. Singers and Musicians are beings who have tasted life’s nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another’s heart. In that instant, they were as close to magic and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes.
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David Ackert, LA Times

I was thinking today about celebrities… not just celebs…but people who are also really really good at what they do, acting, directing, music, art… etc.  And I was wondering .. if they died would they come back as interested in and still doing the same thing they were doing before or would they think .. “I’m done with all that and ready for a break.”.

And what about the queen and that group, there are pluses to their lives, lots of them but there are also lots of things that must be really really annoying or even hated.

I think that it can happen even in one lifetime where you have such a huge hit.. such a huge success, that you don’t feel like trying to out do that feat.  Sometimes I think David Foster Wallace decided he was done… and might go on next life to write bodice rippers or not write at all.

“What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”
― David Foster Wallace