From the start, her work has troubled the distinction between what, in "Citizen," she calls the "self self" and the "historical self," challenging our sense of the lyric's natural territory as the exclusively personal, outside the scope of politics.
The greatness of great musicians is in more than their mere skill at performing; it's in self-challenging creation and emotional exposure a self-challenging that's all the more audacious when it takes place in public, in the presence of an audience, rather than in the studio, where the failures can be erased or shoved into a drawer.
The greatness of great musicians is in more than their mere skill at performing; it's in self-challenging creation and emotional exposure — a self-challenging that's all the more audacious when it takes place in public, in the presence of an audience, rather than in the studio, where the failures can be erased or shoved into a drawer.
"It was always coming from a self-challenge".
His recourse was self-challenge: cold baths, boxing, rock climbing and, he adds, an addictive cultivation of adventure and risk.
Rollins, one of the most complex and tormented of jazz musicians, is known for the self-doubt and self-challenge that pushed him to withdraw several times from public performance to retool musically.
"Aggressive self-challenge," in our director's words, was the mantra for the year; an opportunity to reflect on, and perhaps re-evaluate, the directions of our careers and plunge headlong into subjects that might shake things up.
I thought, 'Hang on, I'm doing this as a self-challenge.
His fall collection--tough and tactile--further explored the designer's passion, not to mention self-challenge, of exploring new and innovate fabric manipulation.
