How to be good
I just came across this quote from the famous Swedish, scalloped fretboard Strat playing virtuoso:
“The simple truth is that in order to be good, you have to be obsessed.” - Yngwie Malmsteen
That is either a go-for-it motivational message or a cautionary tale depending on how you look at it. I used to tend toward the former and now, as an old beat up fart, to the latter. As the book of Proverbs says, "Consider the cost of building a tower..." It may well be worth it. It may also end up being more than you would have been willing to give if you had been able to see and comprehend the bottom line.
“The simple truth is that in order to be good, you have to be obsessed.” - Yngwie Malmsteen
That is either a go-for-it motivational message or a cautionary tale depending on how you look at it. I used to tend toward the former and now, as an old beat up fart, to the latter. As the book of Proverbs says, "Consider the cost of building a tower..." It may well be worth it. It may also end up being more than you would have been willing to give if you had been able to see and comprehend the bottom line.
posted by wingman at 10:23 AM
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The Prestige deals with the topic of obsession quite well, not to mention does a fine job of being a quite enjoyable film!
I was most fascinated by the suspenceful teeter totter between the possibilities of natural and supernatural explanations and how they straddled the two. Reminds me of a quote I ran into somewhere that went something like this:
"Any sufficiently advanced technology will appear to be magic."
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