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Also, I look at what I personally know. I relate to real world experience more than what other people might say. I know this family and have known them since they were all kids back i the early-mid 80s. They all played music. Dad was a bit of a freak and started a family band. Made everyone play music. I'd see them all lined up at the music store for lessons. 6 or 7 of them. They performed professionally. I'm still in contact with some of them. Not all are professional but not ONE hates music and all still play. One plays cello with some San Diego Symphony. She's married to one of the most remarkable jazz pianists alive, who was raised similarly. He was a prodigy and he breathes music and couldn't imagine doing anything else. And he started, likewise, from a ridiculously early age.
There are horror stories for everything. Parents are stupid. Children can be stupid. But throwing the baby out with the bath water is beyond stupid. There are many who like to start rumors about others - genius vs mediocrity. The movie Amadeus, while largely fiction, plays on the truth of that jealousy.
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