Longevity vs short term brilliance

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kvchellappa
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Longevity vs short term brilliance

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What is more important - a singer preserving his voice and delivering standard music for a long period, or going after creativity, innovation, achieving reasonable success art-wise and audience-wise, but burning himself out prematurely?

shankarank
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Re: Longevity vs short term brilliance

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If you are short or even medium term brilliant, there will be people to rave about you in rasikas. Else people will yawn all through your longevity!

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