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A: I’m a sophisticated man.
B: Intellectually – sure… Emotionally, not so much. You’re not too well-
rounded. You’re afraid of yourself. You keep everything on the surface…
Maybe you are a sophisticated man in that regard, and that is why you lash
out at me for your own misgivings about the music industry.
A: Piss off!
B: I rest my case. (Beat.) So why did you ask me here?
A: (Stare.)
B: You asked me here for a reason –
A: It’s not important.
B: Still singing that “Woe is Me” ballad? Give it up, gramps! – You
wanna talk about music and art?
A: What do you know about art? You sold your music to the pimps of
commercial advertisement.
B: Your concept of art runs in circles. Look back on my albums you see
evolution, mind, body, spirit. It’s a healing process. Look at your albums
and it’s just stagnant. There is no change, there is no process. You’ve been
writing the same songs with different words, while I’ve been going my
own way exploring new ground – evolving myself. And you’re calling me
a sell-out because I found a way to get my music to more people? (Beat.)
A: I give the fans what they want.
B: They don’t really want it – they just relate to it. We all have these
events: despair, suffering, heartache… They want to move beyond it.
Expression and relation is only the first step of the process. Next comes
resolution, acceptance – moving on. The thing they all know they need but
cannot see it on their own. They need us to realize it for them. To guide
them. (Beat.) Now here’s the trick – moving on – it only works if you
actually do it. You don’t want to be a parrot always saying the same thing
but never delivering. That is the difference between you and me.
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