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Here’s a couple of contrasting opinions for you;

“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.”   Bill Cosby.

“Music is what unifies” Seu-ma-tsen, Chinese philosopher.

I guess it comes down to the question my good friend Fritz Kundler has posed; Do you wear your music or listen to it?   Does this song make me look fat? 

Without a doubt, many people wear their music which is a function, as Mr. Cosby has pointed out, of creating an identity that is sparate from the previous generation. This has gone on, no doubt, since before Rome and, rather than being a highly original identity, it is a tenuous one, blown about by fashion and dictated by, as Fritz points out, men in suits.

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Art can be a vital form of communication. Often, in the past, the truth about society and culture has been couched allegorically in book, opera, picture or musical work.

The artists (writers, musicians, painters) in Europe kept alive the idea of revolution and educated people in general that the monarchy were not gods nor even chosen by gods, else the French Revolution would never have happened because all the people would have still been fearful that they were opposing ‘God’s Will.’

This is why artists and intellectuals are among the first to be supressed in a totalitarian government. The art of the culture is then usurped by rubbish that is no more than propaganda, such as the ‘art’ of the Nazis.

Tap into your creative genius 

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the great german philosopher and writer once said that; “To create something, you must be something.”

It comes down to how you think of yourself. Do you think of yourself as an artist? I use the term artist always in the broadest sense, meaning that the word includes musicians, writers, painters and, really, anyone who takes pride in a job well done.
If you think of yourself as an artist, stop and reflect on how important artists might be to society and culture in general.

Unfortunately, we live in a time when many people think that art and culture in general is some sort of luxury. It’s something a society indulges in when things are prosperous and people have lots of free time to kill. Some people see it as a passtime of the rich to show off their status.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

In the first place, without artists, eveything, evey business, every product, every service would sink down to the same level of mediocrity and the economy would go right down the toilet.

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