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- That's very good. - Very good. Yeah.
Never hit a drum in my life, but suddenly I'm very good.
Without training, without skill,
without all the musical talent that you have.
Never said I was conducting, Dad.
Yeah, well, your mother said you were doing well,
that you were conducting and composing and doing your music.
I am doing my music. It's percussion. It suits me just fine.
But the... the drum?
It's low pressure, and I enjoy it.
I get to travel, the money's fine, I got no ties.
Everybody said that you, you have a... a talent, you have a future.
People are polite, Dad. You know, they don't always tell you the truth.
The truth is, I was never quite good enough.
But all that education, and now you're disappointed?
I'm not disappointed.
I'm not disappointed, but you obviously are.
No, I'm, I'm not disappointed. It just seems like a waste, that's all.
Of what? What's it a waste of? Of your telephone wire?
No, no. It's not that. I didn't say that.
You know, I still compose, and... and I conduct in my spare time,
but nobody wants to employ me to do that professionally.
That's just the way it is.
Well, I guess I'm just saying it's never too late. You could...
You could keep at it
go back to studying, and I could help you out.
It doesn't work like that, Dad.
If it was going to have happened, it would have happened by now.
Besides, I'm not sure it's what I wanted.
I think maybe I was doing it for you.
I don't believe that.
Dad, the point is, this suits me just fine. This is what I want.
Are you... you managing okay at home?
- Yeah, I'm cooking every day. - Cooking? Yeah?
- Do you know what you're doing? - No, I just make it up, it's...
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