The green room backstage was awash with the usual blue-rinse set
Eager to touch the hem of the accomplished and famous.
One dowager began to gush over the pianist --
"Oh, I would so LOVE to be able to play like you!! I would do anything!!"
The pianist looked at her kindly for a moment, as if making up her mind.
Then she quietly said into her ear,
"No, my dear, you wouldn't. You'd have to say 'No' to many of the things you now enjoy. You'd have to practice for 8 hours every day, live most of your life out of suitcases in hotel rooms, venture into strange places when you least feel like it........."
Her voice tailed off.
The society lady got the message.
If you want your life to be a symphony,
You have to do the scales.
Raw talent may get you through the door,
But it's your responsibility to develop your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual capacity
To shape it into something that will effectively express what you want to put out there.
No scales -- no concerts.
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