britboy4321

I'll answer on her behalf:

'Yes'.

With all great artists it's like this.

I saw an interview with George Michael asking the same question about what made him hit the fame where others faltered.

He thought, and said 'For every 1 song you ever hear, there might be 8 that end up on the studio floor (read 'bin') after weeks of effort have been sunk into them, - and it's that level of quality control, ruthlessly undertaken, that most artists are not prepared to accept, but I insisted on from the very start'.

Similarly, 'Prince' (and now his estate) threaten to SUE any studio that released work he'd recorded that wasn't up to his standard. Rumour has it he has so much unreleased work that the studio could, now, estate willing, release a brand new Prince album every year for the rest of this century - all with new songs.

ADDITIONAL: Do you know J K Rowling wrote 2 versions of every single Harry Potter book - in their entirety, with different story angles .. start to finish, the whole entire damn book, twice, - then literally threw in the bin the one she thought was weaker (after cannibalising any particularly strong aspects of the weaker work)? That's a dedication to quality that very few people possess.

If you were at war and told that you and 6 other guys were going to charge an enemy machine gun post -- would you be clicking your camera or shooting your rifle as you charged forward?

Do you pull ladies at/after the show?

Of you have a partner, do you believe you COULD pull ladies? Do you have offers etc..?

Don't take this the wrong way .. but playing instruments seems kinda like reading a book out loud. Do you get any opportunity to add your own innovation or ideas or expression into the music? Or is it just 'read it and play it, rinse and repeat?'

I mean .. if the music states 'vibrato' or 'staccato' and you add vibrato and it sound good .. sure .. but it not YOU having any ideas you're just rolling with someone else's ideas? seems to me not very rewarding for you .... Like you're a CD player just following instruction, that's also alive?

Another analogy: Like if for a job I was just given a series of numbers printed out once a day and just told to read it them out loud, whispering some and shouting others and stuttering others, exactly as written on the paper?? Which would slowly drive me insane?