The irony is that it is when they are at their lowest and most tormented state that artists are able to deliver such emotionally poignant music. Painful, heartfelt, and tragic: Billie Holiday
Billie was a tortured soul, as were many during her day. Yet the music is much more brilliant and sensory than anything artists now are composing....interesting!
Aristotle said "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting." And I would describe this as being my present stage in life. After having completed several years in pursuit of higher education, I am confident in what I know, willing to learn what I don't, and able to accept or reject an idea based on a balancing of the two. We are all molded by experience including our education. It is central to our development, it is what Alfred Tennyson described as "becoming a name." I have become a name, I have earned my name, and now I am ready to carve out a spot in the American Dream as I myself will define it to mean for my own life.
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Billie was a tortured soul, as were many during her day. Yet the music is much more brilliant and sensory than anything artists now are composing....interesting!
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