Silvio Rodríguez Carrillo

To be amazed at the imposing sculpture of Michelangelo’s Moses, or after hearing something by Bach, to ask yourself – with no possibility of answers – how a man could conceive such a music, are very special situations but they do not cease to have much of normality. Now, when the exaltation caused by the […]

Without a doubt, the breaking point is when the pleasure you are developing leads you to take private lessons in a particular discipline. Let’s take the case of classical guitar, and let the lessons be one hour twice a week. You practice every day and, when its time, the teacher examines whether or not you […]

In early childhood, it’s all about playing as the main activity. You play according to your motor skills and other conditioning factors, play with what you have at hand, like cars, dolls, balls, whatever; you play with your siblings, your neighbours, your mother, your grandmother. And you stop playing to eat, to take a bath, […]

I have known the emotion of the interpreter at one time or another. That extreme feeling of being on the verge of admitting or not admitting that all of life will be a failure because the ideal will simply never be achieved. Of course, there is the comfort some teachers use: «practice so that you […]

You think you’re free? If being on the bus makes you want to pee, do you zip your jeans and pee right there? If a girl asks you, «What is you like the most?» you say, «Suck my dick»? If in the middle of a Christian mass, bored out of your mind, you just want […]