Failure

There’s something liberating about failure. Not the small stumbles—the ones you brush off and move past—but the great, undeniable ones. The ones that strip you down to the bone. David Lynch once said, “It’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure. There’s nowhere to go but up.”

It’s a thought that lingers. At first, failure feels like collapse. A weight pressing down, a silence where you expected sound. But when you sit with it long enough, when the shock fades, you realize: the worst has already happened. And yet, here you are.

There’s a strange kind of clarity in that moment. A release. You are no longer bound by the fear of falling—you’ve already fallen. And now, with nothing left to lose, you can move freely. Create freely. Try things you wouldn’t have dared before.

Music, like life, is full of these moments. Pieces that don’t work, performances that fall flat, ideas that don’t translate. But in every failure, there’s something to salvage. A thread to pull, a lesson to absorb. And sometimes, failure clears the way for something better.

So if you’ve failed—really failed—maybe that’s a gift. Maybe it means you’re finally free to build something new.

Have a great day,

Claudio.

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