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[Tony Scharf]

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Andrew Tarpinian <evildead at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> See I have been struggling with this, with music, with art. Who is it
> for? There are things that can be good enough for you but not for
> others, and things that are good enough for others but not for you.
> What is the divide? it is all just a compromise? One can say rely on
> yourself as the prime audience, but that can be just as hard. As well
> as there are many documented cases of artists working in to much of a
> closed environment and not able to judge their work properly.

The 'divide' you talk about is between yourself as listener and
yourself as composer.  These two individual parts of yourself need to
get together and have tea.  They need to learn to trust one another
more.

I have been doing this for (what feels like) a long time now, and I
have come to the conclusion that I am, and will forever be, my
absolute worst critic.   Make music, play music.  Make some tracks,
play some gigs, throw some data around the internet and see what
happens.  Even if you only connect with a very small audience, that
connection is worth the effort, and it is very gratifying.

Tony