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47 Life After Prison: Journey to Becoming the World's Best Jazz Violinist with Christian Howes

The School of Greatness

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Are You Playing Music to Impress Me?

I think creativity is the ultimate equalizer. You have to learn to trust yourself and you have to do it for yourself. For me, I don't give a fuck who likes it. But then the thing is, somebody will respond to that. Somebody connected with what I played. If you're always playing to please every other person but yourself, you'll be like, it's impossible. And people disagree about what's good. Unless you're playing it. There's people that don't like Stravinsky because they threw fruit at him when the writer's string was out. Right? So if you think about Jimi Hendrix or Bella Bartok or whatever it is, the reason

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