If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
But I could not imagine having a child and the child not having a relationship with music that opens up their mind and their imagination and teaches them things.
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.
Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.
Some children's music is aimed just at kids, and it can be very childlike.
Children are becoming disobedient... why, because of the lack of rules boundaries and limitations.
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
Unfortunately, the spouses of performers have a terrible, terrible life. They get shunted aside, pushed aside, ignored.
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.