Linda’s Writings on Everything

I have this talent for reading between the lines.  I hear this fear that if Mick accepts this award, then he won’t have another song left in him to write.

This tells me that even famous, established artists of all stripes go through periods of self-doubt.  I wonder if Mick Jagger wonders if he’s gone dry, musically speaking.  Observation tells me that many people go through “writer’s block”.  I don’t have a solution for that, except “keep on writing through your writer’s block”.  Or, “Go for the idiotically obvious solution when in doubt.”

John Lennon also doubted his talent, at times.  I believe he gave his reason as the fact that music came so easily to him.  Or else he wondered if his talent is authentic.

Of course, the world has spoken their high opinion of the talents of Mick Jagger and John Lennon.  To me, it’s reassuring to hear that I am NOT the only one who doubts her talent.  I wonder if I have musical talent, myself.  I need to practice music much more often.  But since I did help write The Star Spangled Banner in Mexico thousands of years ago, and in the presence of the guys in Journey, that 80s band who still tour and record today, I probably DO have musical talent.  I also helped compose The Nutcracker.  Don Airey, current keyboardist of Deep Purple, was Tchaikovsky.  But centuries before Tchaikovsky, I sat on his lap and played various melodies of the Nutcracker on the piano.  He held my breasts and I swayed, playing along on that piano.  Therefore, I think that sex and the erotic can stimulate and enhance memory, and yes, even musical composition and talent.

Please be gentle on us Artists.  (And everybody else.).  The lone artist working all alone…. let’s call it “cowboy syndrome”…. that is a myth.  Artists work best in community.  Especially a community of artists, all of whom support each other morally, friendship wise, and perhaps in other ways.  Promoting each other!  Nobody is better at promoting artists than other artists.  Just ask Eric Clapton.  I believe that Eric Clapton uses his music to keep from falling into clinical depression.  He’s a frequent musical collaborator.  He enjoys putting on shows with his musical friends on a regular basis.  He’s obviously the hub of a Musical Community.  So is Ozzy Osbourne.

Business owners, or entrepreneurs, are also artists, but perhaps in a different sense.  They are artists at networking, at marketing, at putting out their core products and services.  I’m taking a Business Class every Tuesday night at College of the Siskiyous.

Perhaps all of life is an art.  Perhaps the same skills of Community and Networking are Universal, and can and should be applied in all professions, in all callings and interests.