starting off the new year with a reflexive thread:
sometime ago a friend asserted that "all music is sad".
and she went on to claim that every person who values music beyond the surface of its social or entertaining qualities is set apart from the others, those for whom music is nothing more than a casual distraction, by some kind of complex emotional character.
I mostly agree.
there were certainly events early in my life which made me much more serious, contemplative, etc, than my peers, and this is probably the main reason I have come to be obsessed with the arts, and particularly music.
what do you think of this? does a deeper than usual appreciation of music necessarily indicate a set of atypical emotional attributes? or is this point so obvious that it didn't really need to be made?
sometime ago a friend asserted that "all music is sad".
and she went on to claim that every person who values music beyond the surface of its social or entertaining qualities is set apart from the others, those for whom music is nothing more than a casual distraction, by some kind of complex emotional character.
I mostly agree.
there were certainly events early in my life which made me much more serious, contemplative, etc, than my peers, and this is probably the main reason I have come to be obsessed with the arts, and particularly music.
what do you think of this? does a deeper than usual appreciation of music necessarily indicate a set of atypical emotional attributes? or is this point so obvious that it didn't really need to be made?
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