Your Father’s Business

May 11

“Space I can recover. Time, never” - Napoleon

If you knew the right place, but not the right time, what would you do?

If you knew, with certainty, that a high-powered record executive would walk past a certain exit of the subway and, pausing to listen, give a record deal to whoever happened to be playing there, what would you?

Would you catch the D train straight there? Spend the next 10 years playing away, waiting the final, fateful day? Ready for it to happen? Looking each and every reasonably dressed passerby in the face with a hopeful look?

The question is, would you really be honing your craft? Would you be learning to write great songs and cut great records? Or would you simply be playing away, waiting for someone to let you know the time was right?

Once you’ve experienced success, it’s easy to say you were in the right place at the right time. But before you’ve experienced success, it tends to feel more like desperately being in every place at every time, trying to leave no stone left unturned.

So maybe, until you find the one, all places are equally wrong? And all times are right? Including now?

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