These are two things you must avoid, especially when it comes to an experience.
How many times have we heard a friend talk all things good about a celebrity musician or singer he recently recorded, or an artist with whom he had a bad experience – one who has the world’s ‘worst attitude’ and so on?
We hear this and bias ourselves with this mere ‘information’ and deprive ourselves of an experience of our own.
We don’t open up more than the opinion we’ve formed and block the energies that transpire between two artists for good music to happen.
When you hear good things about an artist, you raise him high on a pedestal, and when he is in front of you, you tend to ‘Sir… Sir… Sir…’ yourself.
And if it’s something horrible you’ve heard about an artist, first you’ll use all your efforts to avoid the artist.
When unavoidable, you act cold and mean. All you want to do is just get away from the artist – come what may.
Be neutral to any artist, big or small.
Have the same approach for a singer who sings outside a temple and the one who is a renowned singer.
Being neutral allows you to focus on music rather than the artist.