Don Satz wrote:

>You  feel you have to prove yourself, to deserve your audience.  So you
>are tougher with yourself, rather than being able to love yourself,   the
>music, your audience.

Janet Baker says something along these lines in her book, "Full Circle"
if I remember rightly.  She said that she realised that she should give
up worrying about what evreyone was thinking, do her best an enjoy it.
She retired from the stage,I believe at fifty.

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