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All music is sacred
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Some musicians waste a lot of energy hating the music made by other musicians who the first musicians think should stop making the music they wasted so much energy hating on.
Wait... what did I mean by that? Stop hating and go play your bass...
Wait... what did I mean by that? Stop hating and go play your bass...
If it makes one person happy even just the artist himself it’s valid. IMHO
I also like music a lot, but I think the OP is referring to the words below from Kurt Vonnegut:
I will come to a time in my backwards trip when November eleventh, accidentally my birthday, was a sacred day called Armistice Day. When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.
Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.
Cool. I'd say he's pretty loose with his definition of "sacred." Good for him!
Vonnegut invented his own religion in one of his books.....
Bokononism - Wikipedia
“Bokononism is based on the concept of foma, which are defined as harmless untruths. A foundation of Bokononism is that the religion, including its texts, is formed entirely of lies; however, one who believes and adheres to these lies will have peace of mind, and perhaps live a good life. The religion's bible, The Books of Bokonon, begins: "Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma! All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies."
Not quite L. Ron Hubbard, but half way there.....
Bokononism - Wikipedia
“Bokononism is based on the concept of foma, which are defined as harmless untruths. A foundation of Bokononism is that the religion, including its texts, is formed entirely of lies; however, one who believes and adheres to these lies will have peace of mind, and perhaps live a good life. The religion's bible, The Books of Bokonon, begins: "Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma! All of the true things that I am about to tell you are shameless lies."
Not quite L. Ron Hubbard, but half way there.....
Don’t even get Carlos Santana involved in this conversation..
Or Carlos Castenada either, for that matter.Don’t even get Carlos Santana involved in this conversation..
No, music is all about selling so no ... it has nothing divine, sacred or Art.
it is ok like that, it doesn't need to be more than a way to sell either beer or merch
it is ok like that, it doesn't need to be more than a way to sell either beer or merch
My cut to the chase view- there are 2 kinds of music. The kinds u like, the kinds u don't.
I mostly pick the first one, but sometimes I listen to the second one, and now and then they get moved to the first one.
word.
MJ
I mostly pick the first one, but sometimes I listen to the second one, and now and then they get moved to the first one.
word.
MJ
Don’t even get Carlos Santana involved in this conversation..
Or John McLaughlin...
