True musicians, much underrated...

Was reminded by someone recently that Celine Dion was a great musician because she recorded the theme from Titanic (yeah, the completely over-played hackneyed 'oirishy' thing) in one take. This shows how standards have dropped in the world of music (well, big-label corporate productions anyway), as by that definition your local wedding band are also great, as they can get things right in one take. In fact, it can also be called 'playing live', a much-maligned skill now that EMI, SONY and so on are prepared to recruit people for their looks, not for their ability. This is possible because any moron can sing a tune if given 5 million attempts at it, lots of reverb, and sound engineers able to use pitch correction software afterwards. I myself can also get things right in one take: Every time I play the oboe solo in Krommer's Octet, it is in a live setting, with lots of attentive ears listening for blemishes, and I have to get it right, as it is live. I somehow manage to do so. Therefore I must be some kind of genius... Well, I'm not. I'm just a competent musician. Such a performance is to be expected from a professionally trained musician. Imagine if you could only make a cup of tea after 15 attempts, and someone else had to edit in half a cup of tea afterwards to correct for the addition of too much milk? Would this be acceptable? Well, it would if the customer was not aware of the problem, and was prepared to buy 10 million copies of the tea because it was in a beautifully presented, highly attractive, and very expensive cup, I suppose... Looks like I've answered my own question here. Depressing, isn't it?