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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I don't know. Sure, no one can be (or have) fun 24-7. But if you take music too seriously, you may end up thinking that music matters or that it is somehow important. I'm afraid that's the most effective way to stifle creativity. |
Music is as important to me as things like friendship or laughter. I can't begin to list all the things in my life that have been turned from mind-numbingly intolerable to enjoyable with the addition of music. Whether it's keeping fit or commuting to work or cleaning up the house. There's the endless list of people I've met, good times I've had and unforgettable memories that all happened because of music. And there are the times I've felt unimaginably ty and it's kept me borderline sane.
True, being po-faced and actively regarding your music as "important" is just as bad as thinking of it as "fun", with the opposite effect. I'm not saying that thinking that music is essential to people's lives while making a track is going to guarantee that that track ends up being important to someone.
But it's like a comedian laughing at his own jokes - it's rarely as effective as when he keeps a straight face. It's why Arnie's stone-faced non-acting enlivened many a ty '80s action movie. I remember reading a Chekhov quote advising writers to render their work in a tone that is opposite the intended effect. If you're being serious, render it in an offhand way. If you're being light, play it straight. |
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| Lira |
Music is important to life, that is true... but I'd still try not to overemphasise its importance because it's just escapism. A play to help us drift away from our own lives every now and then. As an English philosopher once said, "I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter" :)
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
As an English philosopher once said, "I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter" |
See, this is why I dislike philosophy. He said that after getting laid for the first time in his thirties. And he's being remembered for that crap. :mad: |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Music is important to life, that is true... but I'd still try not to overemphasise its importance because it's just escapism. A play to help us drift away from our own lives every now and then. As an English philosopher once said, "I thought that music mattered. But does it? Bollocks! Not compared to how people matter" :) |
Are you listening to anything I'm saying? Music might be escapism when you stop everything else in your life and just sit there listening to it, like you might when playing a videogame or reading a book. But what makes music quite unique amongst the artforms is it can permeat everyday life. I don't think listening to music while working is "escapism", I don't think listening to music while travelling is "escapism".
I also find it daft that you'd treat music and life as somehow separate realms, that you escape from one into the other. For someone who claims to read a lot of philosophy, that seems a very simplistic view. |
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holy , if there ever was a time that this thread needed my pics-
it is now.
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| Silky Johnson |
| I have that same bikini as in the second pic. Not that body though, lol. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| I have that body. Oh, I have that body. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| A picture in your mind every time you whack off doesn't count! Fag! |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| I don't need pictures; I have freezer space! |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Hurrhurrrrrr |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| You're right. I'm running out. Hey, want some chili? |
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| stren |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Pie
I have that same bikini as in the second pic. Not that body though, lol. |
I was thinking this was a nice bikini, I like that ring thingy |
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