Alright, a few weeks ago I alluded to my reluctance to try to amaze people with my music and I thought I'd better explain that a bit. I don't mean that I strive to play music as simply and shoddily as I can - because I don't. I do try and make the music I play sound as simple as I can, but that's just about as far away from playing 'shoddily' as you can get. But by the same token, I'm not saying that I have an absolutely invincibly technique and can play everything perfectly - because I certainly haven't and can't.

I was thinking about this idea (about trying not to amaze people with my music) a couple of days ago, and I came to a pretty pessimistic conclusion, namely: I've got very little faith in people's abilities to recognise beauty in music. If I did have faith in people, I wouldn't even have to consider not trying to amaze them.

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Right, I'm getting a bit bogged down here (already), and my brain simply isn't functioning properly, so I'll leave it here for the time being, and will either edit this little bit out and replace it with the rest of the story, or will post the rest of the story in a seperate post, and keep this little paragraph (it's actually still a single sentence) to remind us all, in a few years, of the time my brain got clogged up and I was unable to continue, for fear of suffocation, or death, or something along those lines.