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Maria João Pires (b. 1944), Portuguese pianist of enormous merit, winner of several musical awards, taking a look back at her journey, says in an interview (from 19/04/2019): “ Today music contests are responsible for the future disappearance of music, for destruction of everything, for the impossibility of young people to be able to express themselves as we did and to become artists, musicians. Contests give a perspective that is totally fake, artificial, wrong, which leads us to only have illusions of things that don't exist. How can you be an artist and the goal is to win? But win what?”
(...)“ Music doesn't generate any of this (celebrity), music generates something that has to do with our deep nature, with our consciousness, with an openness, an opening that connects us to a universe, which connect to a truth, that connects us to something that has to do with what's good. Celebrity is something that has nothing good, because it separates us from the group, that makes us different, for what?...”
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