Purely by hard work, one can become an artist.

However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously.

I continue to explain that plot inconsistencies in B movies are consistent, and should not be allowed to undermine one's enjoyment of the action, nor the fundamental credibility of the storyline: the good & bad guys are clearly delineated & easily recognizable, the hero duffs over the baddies, things blow up loudly & spectacularly, the good guy wins. Entirely credible.

Performance is a vehicle for entering different worlds of experiencing.

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time.