{"id":175604,"date":"2022-12-07T21:45:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=175604"},"modified":"2022-12-07T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T21:46:23","slug":"keep-on-trying-till-you-get-right-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/12\/07\/keep-on-trying-till-you-get-right-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep On Trying Till You Get It Right, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If only everything in life was that easy? But its not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A philosophical reflection on music from my perspective. I love it and people perceive what I do as being of some worth. But I will never really feel as though I really have it enough serious effort. In live music though it may not be obvious I am the eternal busker fitting in. So in essence its always a case of if you can make music and it makes you happy just do it with whatever means you can. That&#8217;s my  ethos at least. My friend Danny says after a good performance if some magic happens &#8220;there were moments&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"663\" data-attachment-id=\"175611\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/12\/07\/keep-on-trying-till-you-get-right-right\/diana-smiling-piano-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?fit=1483%2C1627&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1483,1627\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;SM-G950F&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1659107302&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.95&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Diana Stone smiling at the piano\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Diana Stone smiling at the piano&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Diana Stone smiling at the piano&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?fit=604%2C663&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?resize=604%2C663\" alt=\"Diana Stone smiling at the piano\" class=\"wp-image-175611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?resize=933%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 933w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?resize=273%2C300&amp;ssl=1 273w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?resize=768%2C843&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?resize=1400%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?w=1483&amp;ssl=1 1483w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Diana-Smiling-Piano-1.jpg?w=1208 1208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Diana Stone smiling at the piano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Cold out too right now, so I wont venture far.  It&#8217;s hard to resist the appeal of staying in bed all day when it&#8217;s like this.  Winter sunshine is great to look at from indoors out.<br>And here is a tune for you. <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1397430517&amp;color=%23d0346c&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/dilettante\" title=\"Dilettante\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Dilettante<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If only everything in life was that easy? But its not. A philosophical reflection on music from my perspective. I love it and people perceive what I do as being of some worth. But I will never really feel as though I really have it enough serious effort. In live music though it may not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/12\/07\/keep-on-trying-till-you-get-right-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keep On Trying Till You Get It Right, Right?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-JGk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":175475,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/09\/07\/september-with-rain\/","url_meta":{"origin":175604,"position":0},"title":"September with Rain","author":"diana Stone","date":"September 7, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"September and its cooler finally.\u00a0 Here it's mostly business as usual. 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At the time of writing the UK is still part of the EU though I suspect not for that much longer sadly. I have spent a lot of time soul searching\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Musings&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Musings","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/musings\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175336,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2022\/05\/11\/tis-the-merry-month-of-may\/","url_meta":{"origin":175604,"position":2},"title":"Tis the Merry Month of May","author":"diana Stone","date":"May 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"And suddenly as if from nowhere by magic there was blossom all around.\u00a0 Time moves a different speeds as we get older I am sure, or it seems to pass much quicker than it did before. I am doing rather more than I was before on the music side of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Diana Stones Songs&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Diana Stones Songs","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/category\/diana_stones_songs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":175108,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2021\/10\/05\/mostly-waiting-for-something\/","url_meta":{"origin":175604,"position":3},"title":"Mostly waiting for something","author":"diana Stone","date":"October 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"So what have I been up to? Music and music and music mostly. Including a vaguely Rick Wakeman style thing that actually worked rather better than I though it would. 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