Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. That's why they're the genius and you're not.
There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.