Re: good intentions

["Joe Osborne" <harmonic1@hotmail.com>]

At this point I can't help but to believe that this thread is looking more 
and more like a justification for random noise. To use a quote made in 
regards to another subject (in this case I'll apply it to music), "I don't 
know what it is. But I know it when I see (hear) it". Just because 
something 
may or may not be commercially successful does not validate it. As a 
guitarist I was mortified when Kurt Cobane (after killing himself) was 
compared to Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix was a genius. Kurt Cobane was anything 
but. As Wynton Marsallis once said, "Some of the music out there now is 
like 
The Emperor's New Clothes. Just because we see flashy images, or we need 
to 
be convinced its real music doesn't justify it. Sometimes bad music is 
just 
that. Bad music. And often very few people are willing to go against the 
popular media and say just that. This music is awful." If one feels the 
need 
to validate what they're doing it seems to me to be a level of insecurity. 
If one is comfortable with they're own talent, and
effort, than they're is no one that needs convincing. Unless of course the 
very argument they make is being made just to convince themselves.
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