In the words of Shakespeare, some people are born great, some people achieve greatness and some people have greatness thrust upon them. While you do occainsionaly meet the guitarist who never practices but is insanely good its much more common (and generally they are better) to meet a guy whos been playing for 6 years and practices 8 hours a day. Stevie Ray Vaughan says that when they started his brother was far more talented, but he practiced way more. His brothers a good guitarist but the Fabulous Thunderbirds compared to Stevie Ray Vaughan is like Keith Richards compared to Jimmy Hendrix. Mozart was born a great composer, but Beethoven on the other hand slowly got better. Beethoven starts with his sonatas and first few symphonies but by the end you have his string quartets and symphonies 5,6,7,9 and his fifth concerto. Hard work overcomes talent any day of the week.
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