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Re: Coffeehouse Guitar vs street-busker
Actually, this sort of thought provoking, intelligent musings from
other artists
are exactly what I needed to help me through the introverted spiral I
fall into
now and then. I hope this continues to be a place where not only technical
things are discussed but the philosophical bits as well.
Thanks all
Paul
Quoting Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net>:
> You got it. When I first heard Phish, I disliked them. Then a year
> later they were my favorite band. Something happened in my head that
> changed how I felt about what I heard. That black box is a mysterious
> thing. As you say, there are "truths" like "Song A makes me feel X",
> but another person may say "Song A does not make me feel X, but Y".
> Of course, putting those two statements side by side, they contradict
> each other, but that isn't a problem if you restrict them to facts of
> personal feeling rather than actual characteristics of music. IF we
> are talking about actual inherent or instrinsic characteristics of
> music, then it would be impossibe for a piece of music to be both X
> and Not-X. That's absurd....a does-not-compute. So there is no
> single truth about the value of a single piece of music, only
> individual truths that may or may not be consistent with each other,
> and which correspond to states of affairs inside the private "black
> box" of thoughts and feeligs.
>
> I think I've turned this thread into a philosophical tract. Sorry.
>
> Kris