Advice to a musician
No one has the right to claim you
since you belonged to music from the beginning.
She owns your soul,
and you owe your soul to her
with all her ocean depths of wisdom,
universe of loving and emotional profundity
and unfathomable richness of experience,
not just any kind of, but of all humanity,
the human history consisting mainly of the journey of the spirit,
being all there in the records of the soul
as manifested in the arts,
emotionally above all in music.
That's your reign of government and freedom,
of expansion and of love
which you can share with all humanity in music only,
which belongs to you like something of a key
to all hearts of all sentient beings.
It is also a responsibility
demanding faithfulness and labour
but, above all, purity,
since only loving hearts of truth and honesty
could ever make good music that would last.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-02-27 at 09:38
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