To add my cents (maybe one, maybe two)...It's funny how we can talk about
such things...we can think about such things...but, unfathomable how we can
truly not feel any of these things unless in the immediate grasp of emotion,
for lack of a better word...
Music represents a part of ourselves, our psyche, our minds, which
cannot be touched, nor accessed, by words alone...people lose touch with
the inner world when they get wrapped up in that which exists in the outer
world...
Artists and their patrons haven't a monopoly on art, however, they
do have a monopoly on the artistic aesthetic...it seems such a
mind-blowing concept to me that "people" out there can't seem to enjoy
the music that I enjoy so much "in here"...i'm sure many of you have the
same thoughts...BUT alas, this is subjective, involving taste, and therefore
must be excluded from discussion...
Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, "Whereof one cannot speak, one must be
silent..." THUS, to remain true to my logical positivist roots, I must be
silent about that which cannot be spoken in words...it must merely be
felt instead of said...shown instead of described...
Again, pardon for my digression...I hope those of you who are into this
discussion have "got" what I hope I meant... ;)
--Jeff