Play on Demand

The sense that you just have to go on living
 That life is a 'must'
 When you say to anything spontaneous
 See, life is spontaneous
 It happens-in the words of the Taoists
 Zìrán (自然)
 Which means "of itself so"
 That's the Chinese expression for nature
 What happens by itself
 What isn't pushed
 But it just pops up, you see?
 You came into being
 It happening in a kind of a - plop -way
 Like that, see?
 Now, you can't tell that process
 "You ought to happen! You must happen!"
 Because that puts a bind on it
 In the same way as when you have little child,
 And all the relatives have come to a party on Thanksgiving,
 And you put the child in the middle of all the relatives
 And say, "Now, dear, play!"
 Now, dear
 Play
 Now, dear
 Play
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 See?
 It absolutely bugs the child to do it like that
 And so this is the problem for every artist
 Because an artist is a man who makes his living by playing
 Whether he's dancing, or painting, or playing music
 Or whatever it is
 And he has to overcome this problem
 He has to know how to play in public
 At a given time on an appointment
 See?
 And that's not an easy thing to learn
 But when you catch on to the trick of it
 You can do it
 To play on demand
 That's the hardest lesson of life
 To contrive
 What is called by my Japanese artist friend Saburo Hasegawa
 A controlled accident
 Now, dear
 Play
 Now, dear
 Play
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