Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 13, 2006 at about 11pm CST - Segment 5
Master CraftsMon - Aired Monday, March 13, 2006 at about 11pm CST - Segment 5
<Money for Nothing by Dire Straits> #4.5
This is a long song. When this came out a long time ago, I saw the music video for it and it always struck me how much misinformation is in it. The guy who wrote the song said that he was in an store buying something and overheard a blue collar worker complaining about how easy it looks for performers to make their money. The lyrics writer said that he had to quickly write down all the conversation before it slipped out of his head.
You see, what you see on TV and at live performances is the work of years. On average, a performer can work twenty years before making it big. Acts like Simon and Garfunkel hit it big when they were in their teens, but that is a rarity. Oh, wait, you never heard of Simon and Garfunkel. Ah, it doesn't matter. They hit the top in about 1970 and died as an act in about 1976. Paul Simon made it as a single, but Art Garfunkel never made it big. One of their songs in the 1970's was about being 64 and being friends. They turned 64 this last year and toured the country trying to milk the nostalgia wave. The break up had been so awful a lot of people wonder how Art could stand doing the tour.
Anyway. What I am getting at is that to be the best you have to spend a LOT of time perfecting your craft. It is not as easy as it looks on the TV. f the blue collar worker had thought about it, he would have been aware that even moving refrigerators and color TV's effectively requires experience. A master craftsman in any trade no matter how humble commands a premium price. Or he or she should.
<Money for Nothing by Dire Straits> #4.5
This is a long song. When this came out a long time ago, I saw the music video for it and it always struck me how much misinformation is in it. The guy who wrote the song said that he was in an store buying something and overheard a blue collar worker complaining about how easy it looks for performers to make their money. The lyrics writer said that he had to quickly write down all the conversation before it slipped out of his head.
You see, what you see on TV and at live performances is the work of years. On average, a performer can work twenty years before making it big. Acts like Simon and Garfunkel hit it big when they were in their teens, but that is a rarity. Oh, wait, you never heard of Simon and Garfunkel. Ah, it doesn't matter. They hit the top in about 1970 and died as an act in about 1976. Paul Simon made it as a single, but Art Garfunkel never made it big. One of their songs in the 1970's was about being 64 and being friends. They turned 64 this last year and toured the country trying to milk the nostalgia wave. The break up had been so awful a lot of people wonder how Art could stand doing the tour.
Anyway. What I am getting at is that to be the best you have to spend a LOT of time perfecting your craft. It is not as easy as it looks on the TV. f the blue collar worker had thought about it, he would have been aware that even moving refrigerators and color TV's effectively requires experience. A master craftsman in any trade no matter how humble commands a premium price. Or he or she should.
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