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If you play music in modern times, this movie is also informative. I think most musicians who really make innovative tunes are aware of these trade offs, it maps to real life well. There's musicians who make music for other musicians and they're trying to say something they know most people will have a little difficulty hearing.

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Being Mozart was often in debt, it wouldn't make sense that he wanted to please musicians over paying customers. But who knows. Maybe his desire to test the limits of music subconsciously overrode financial worries, and that's why he was always in debt.

Most creative pioneers have a personality quirk or two.

Some people are just bad with money management. They get and spend it as fast as they can. Some can manage it but allocate it incorrectly. Money management is a skill that takes time and practice for most people. Learning other skills is also a skill. Mozart was a prodigy it could be no one pulled him to the side to learn how to learn and always let him play?

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