| | What if all the music you heard was either made by you, or performed live? This is what the world was like, up to about a century ago.
I have been dying to tell this to people who say they like music, and yet don't play an instrument or sing.
Music, like dance and art, has become a commodity in today's world. It is best left to the professionals.
However, we don't have to be good at an instrument or be able to read music, because recordings can be bought. We obey less than we know, to use a religious analogy. Here's my thought: I don't think we really own music, unless we get to be part of it.
An ipod is great, but if all it does for your sense of music is get you to buy more albums from your favorite artist, then good for that artist. Is it good for you?
So: here's my challenge. Take a one-week vow of "All the Music I Hear will be Live or Made by Me." Don't plug your ears in waiting rooms or at the mall, but don't go there to get your music fix either. Sit down at the piano. Learn the words to a song. Get guitar lessons.....
Just some unorganized thoughts. What do you think?
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| | Posted 5/19/2009 11:52 AM - 5 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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