He used to say, “God needs violins to send His music into the world. And if my violins are defective, God’s music will be spoiled. Other men will make other violins, but no man shall make a better one.”
Here is a man whose greatest work came in the late 1690's, and 300 hundred years later, his violins cannot still cannot be duplicated. Is it because he napped with the violins while they were drying? A secret varnish? A harder grade of wood? I think it was pure mastery and passion, (although we will all argue over this, agreeing to disagree)
Pictures of Kelly Johnson's U-2 and SR-71 are all over the net. Kelly insisted that anything that was beautiful would fly as such.
Minimalism.
Ethics.
Mastery
I think this is the new ethos of Generation X.
A lifestyle of meaning over wealth.
Ethics over greed.
Faith over fashion.
We are getting real.
