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Ever since I made that post about what you could have been, with you current knowledge, if you could go back and be anything, what would you be thing, I have been thinking about the special people. The special people are the ones who are put on this earth, and know what they are ment to do with their lives. They are just, so overwhelmingly gifted and talented that there really is no other choice for them, the see the painting in every sunset, they can't escape the music in their heads, they are lucky ones.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't literally think people on this earth are "ment" for anything, and I am sure sometimes people ignore their given talents and do other things, but there are some people whose lives aren't full of questions, possibilties, options and confusion. No, their lives just fall into place...or they work so hard from the begining and never lose their motivation. I am eternally jealous of these people.
The easiest way to show examples of these people, and the people I have been thinking about most while pondering these ideas, has been the poets who put their lyric to music.
I was talking to my dad a couple of days ago, and he said that in Middle School he had a debate with his English Teacher. He told his teacher that Bob Dylan would be remembered as long as William Shakespeare...and his teacher obviously disagreed. But I see where he is coming from, and so many people wouldn't think of Shakespeare and Dylan as comprable to eachother...but Bob Dylan is a poet, and so was Shakespeare...Shakespeare put his poems to action, Dylan to music. Dylan wrote songs you didn't even know he wrote, many for other popular artist and he is still writing and creating music today, nothing else but the music, that is dedication.
I saw Jim Morrison's grave when I was in Paris, and it was a moving experience, the amount of people and love that continues to follow this artist after his death. He is a good example of the emotionally unstable overwhelmingly talented artist, like he is so amazing he has to be self distructive...he probably couldn't connect with almost anyone, I mean...how could he communicate and get them to understand the way his high level brain functions worked? It must have been very lonely for him. Speaking of.
I have been listening to the music soundtrack of We Will Rock You the Queen musical, and there is a nonQueen song "Only The Good Die Young" which they sing and dedicate to Freddie and other artists who left us to early, and every time I hear it I want to cry for Freddie. I mean, that is seriously a music visionary. Not only an amazing poet, but an amazing performance artist (you could definitely call his stage antics, the music videos...the style of his music is dramatic and very theatrical). He changed music forever, no song sounds the same, there was no label, he never had to be one thing, contantly being different, constantly pushing for new expression.
These people are my inspiration, and I am eternally jealous of them, for knowing what they can do, and who they are, and for sharing that with the world...sometimes to their own sad end.
Now don't get me wrong, I don't literally think people on this earth are "ment" for anything, and I am sure sometimes people ignore their given talents and do other things, but there are some people whose lives aren't full of questions, possibilties, options and confusion. No, their lives just fall into place...or they work so hard from the begining and never lose their motivation. I am eternally jealous of these people.
The easiest way to show examples of these people, and the people I have been thinking about most while pondering these ideas, has been the poets who put their lyric to music.
I was talking to my dad a couple of days ago, and he said that in Middle School he had a debate with his English Teacher. He told his teacher that Bob Dylan would be remembered as long as William Shakespeare...and his teacher obviously disagreed. But I see where he is coming from, and so many people wouldn't think of Shakespeare and Dylan as comprable to eachother...but Bob Dylan is a poet, and so was Shakespeare...Shakespeare put his poems to action, Dylan to music. Dylan wrote songs you didn't even know he wrote, many for other popular artist and he is still writing and creating music today, nothing else but the music, that is dedication.
I saw Jim Morrison's grave when I was in Paris, and it was a moving experience, the amount of people and love that continues to follow this artist after his death. He is a good example of the emotionally unstable overwhelmingly talented artist, like he is so amazing he has to be self distructive...he probably couldn't connect with almost anyone, I mean...how could he communicate and get them to understand the way his high level brain functions worked? It must have been very lonely for him. Speaking of.
I have been listening to the music soundtrack of We Will Rock You the Queen musical, and there is a nonQueen song "Only The Good Die Young" which they sing and dedicate to Freddie and other artists who left us to early, and every time I hear it I want to cry for Freddie. I mean, that is seriously a music visionary. Not only an amazing poet, but an amazing performance artist (you could definitely call his stage antics, the music videos...the style of his music is dramatic and very theatrical). He changed music forever, no song sounds the same, there was no label, he never had to be one thing, contantly being different, constantly pushing for new expression.
These people are my inspiration, and I am eternally jealous of them, for knowing what they can do, and who they are, and for sharing that with the world...sometimes to their own sad end.