Creativity Quote by Lara St. John

It reads like a throwaway travel gripe, but Lara St. John is quietly indicting an entire infrastructure that treats artistry as excess baggage. The phrasing matters: "Let me be very honest" signals she’s bracing for disbelief, as if the request is indulgent rather than practical. Then she reduces her needs to two objects - a violin and a laptop - the physical and digital halves of a working musician’s life. Not champagne, not legroom, not status. Just the tools. That spareness makes the complaint land harder.

The subtext is about risk and control. For many musicians, a violin isn’t luggage; it’s livelihood, identity, sometimes an irreplaceable instrument with fragile wood and volatile value. Airlines, by contrast, are built to standardize bodies and belongings into sizes, fees, and overhead-bin geometry. St. John’s conditional - "if any airline would let me" - frames a basic accommodation as a rare exception, exposing how policy often lags behind modern creative labor.

There’s also a consumer-power flex tucked inside the politeness: "I would fly that airline all the time". She’s translating a cultural argument into market language airlines actually speak: loyalty. In an era when touring artists are expected to function like small businesses, this is less a diva demand than a miniature labor manifesto. Respect the instrument, and you respect the worker. Ignore it, and you’re telling creative professionals their work is optional, even when it’s literally in their hands.