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I work 8-9 hour days Mon to Fri and I rehearse once or twice a week with my guitar player and once or twice on my own for a couple of hours at a time, and play gigs about 2 to 3 nights a week. I also try and keep my art work going, and I'm writing a dissertation.
I have very little time for practice, which is a shame, but I can't really make that much time right now.
Evidence of my lack of practice is my inability to progress much on guitar and no time for writing my own music. Haven't done that for years now. It's sad.
Music is a tough activity because mostly you can't only do that and make a living...
If you do have the time, sitting yourself down and actually making the effort to put a few hours into playing and fiddling on your instrument of choice is the best way to get a routine of sorts and find a rhythm again.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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