Video 1 Transcript
I think some of the hardest things about being a musician is if you travel around with your music. Some of the most physically demanding, mentally demanding things have been traveling. I remember being over in Europe with a singing group and having to do crazy bus rides, getting in at 4 a.m. to a hotel and crashing after an eight-hour bus ride, you know, stuff like that. So you do have to keep yourself up physically and mentally. It's not just the performance you have to deal with, it's all the stuff in between as well, which can only take a toll if you're not used to traveling. So factor that in too if that's the kind of musician you want to be.
Video 2 Transcript
I think the hardest thing, honestly, is a self-imposed thing that a lot of us musicians do, and that is comparing ourselves to others, instead of just measuring our performance on how good we are yesterday and how good we are today. I can't count the number of times where I've seen other pianists play something and, oh yeah, I can go learn that, I could probably do that, after all the decades of practice I've put in. And then I go and look at the music, I'm like, oh wow, this is actually a little bit tricky. And sometimes it's like you have to realize that no matter how good you are at something you've spent years and years and years doing, there's just always going to be somebody who's going to be able to do some aspect of it better than you. And that's kind of what keeps us going. You know, you have to not let it drag you down, but make it kind of a source of motivation for you to say, okay, that's just one more thing I'm going to get good at. You can't let it get you down. It's just part of learning music.
