But I don't see how Mozart could have turned into anything crappy. The stuff he wrote when he was 12 was worth listening to, and he had practically linear growth in the magnificence of his work through the last 15 or so years of his life.
Mozart might well have retired if he got rich, the way Shakespeare did. But there's no way that he was capable of writing dreck. So I'm definitely going with Mozart on this. I would sacrifice the later years of pretty much anyone who's ever lived, except Bach, in order to get more years out of Mozart.
Who knows, he could have had burnout and started writing drinking songs for the lute or something!
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Who knows, he could have had burnout and started writing drinking songs for the lute or something!
That's actually kind of what I was thinking.
Brian Wilson did an interview one time where he said that he does believe that songwriters (or artists of any stripe) can run out of material. I think he's right to a point...maybe not completely run out, but get to where consistency is a thing of the past.
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