I believe that people are natively creative and original: taking lessons should increase your originality rather then blunt it. (After all, there is only one you!)
Quality music instruction promotes understanding, practical skill, creativity, thinking on your own and fully expressing yourself. The more freely you express your ideas, concepts and feelings the more original you will be. Anything that inhibits your personal expression can blunt your creativity, therefore ruin your originality.
In my twenty-eight years of teaching I have found that students who had little success with music lessons probably experienced one or more of the following:
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