A quote from one of the most famous or should I say infamous magicians of all time is so true of music as it is of magic or as Mr Crowley would have said magick.
Any art form from dance and poetry to music and sculpture is
about expression of you the artist and one would use the tools of the trade –
your talents and virtues as the building blocks to express this however without
willpower you have no way of dealing with the blows that land on you from
people who critique you and who are just downright jealous of you.
You need to develop a thick skin to deal with this and that
is something that most artists do not have and it needs to be acquired.
A little bit like the skin on the ends of your fingers that
start being very painful and then they toughen up and then one never feels that
level of discomfort again.
Vic
