It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.
I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.
It's not art, it's science.
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.
I'm a fan of many different styles of classical and symphonic music.