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Ottessa Moshfegh

City Arts & Lectures

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The Importance of Practice

I know that your parents, you come from a very musical background. Do you think that has been a big part of kind of teaching you what it takes to be an artist? Yeah. I mean, being a classical musician is like being a ballerina or something. It's unheard of how much my sister who trained as a cellist when she was little, she was just constantly practicing. You have to get so good and so sensitive that you can turn that machine into something like completely mystical and like pure emotion and sound,. Like that is the miracle.

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