Do you get to use the O twice? (I don’t play that game too often)
Yes, you have to use all the letters, but not necessarily once each.
Thanks!
My thought exactly.
Leaving town for six days during a heatwave and drip irrigation is not working.
Also piccata.
This is tricky for me. While I think that the overall sentiment and direction is very positive and much needed, I worry that it can be (& is) taken too far by those who don’t want to recognize our overall human condition and rationalize that taking care of themselves exempts them from considering the opinions/feelings of others. True that, as individuals, we shouldn’t depend on validation to define our worth, but maybe not so true that needing approval is emotional debt and not part of being human and caring about opinions that others may have about the things we do. I worry about the consequences of people not needing anyone’s approval to do what they do. Especially these days.
Oh, I was solely looking at this from the musician’s perspective, although they also say that “applause is the artist’s bread” (at least in German).
I think one can be a good human without being thirsty for others’ approval.
It’s called not being a dick.
I think if you want to be a musician who gets paid, validation and approval are very helpful.
Eh. Money isn’t everything when it comes to art
Most of my fellow musicians have day jobs (myself included — several, actually), bc even if you get paid, it’s usually not enough to make a living.
The point is if you’re on stage solely for the approval of others, you might not be doing it for your own sake.
Right, but is there a person on earth who does EVERYTHING for their own sake? Isn’t that just the definition of a narcissist? Or are we solely discussing making art?
I was
Okay. That was not obvious.
Huh.
And pepita.
That’s generally a good rule for life, period. Or as @Harters might say, full stop.
I don’t recall who the artist was, but the other day I heard an interview where an artist noted that when one of his works resold recently for millions of dollars, he got absolutely nothing from the (re)sale, other than a little attention. IIRC, he’d sold the piece in question for ~$10K. I had never thought about that calculus. I guess I always illogically assumed that some of that profit flowed back to the artist.
The context of the discussion was something like:
Interviewer: “You must be doing pretty well, considering the recent sale of your piece.”
Artist: “No, I still have to work another job. My other works don’t sell for millions. It’s still a bit of a struggle.”