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[insolent cur]

dr. john interview:  http://www.examiner....-the-right-time

 

dr. john at vibes 2011

[hoagie]

Music is the last real magick left in our world with any potency remaining...

[insolent cur]

universal language.

[hoagie]

[hoagie]

universal language.

 

 

manipuation of emotion and carrier of truths through vibrations....Pythagoras and the Hermetists knew about it's power....

[TEO]

[hoagie]

We are the last magicians left...

[insolent cur]

manipuation of emotion and carrier of truths through vibrations....Pythagoras and the Hermetists knew about it's power....

 

i don't think it's manipulation of emotion...i think it's pure emotion conveyed through a universal medium.

[hoagie]

i don't think it's manipulation of emotion...i think it's pure emotion conveyed through a universal medium.

 

depends on the intent I suppose

[hoagie]

if you got the time and interest...

 

http://wn.rsarchive....9061203p01.html

 

"Life is a sorry business, and through thinking I try to make it bearable. Pervading everything in the world is a blind, unconscious Will. It shapes the stone and then the plant — but always, in all its manifestations, with a restless yearning for something higher. The savage feels this less than does the genius, who experiences the painful cravings of the Will in the highest, most intense, degree."

[insolent cur]

thanks for the link.

 

for me, music = emotion.

[TEO]

‎"Singers and Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. 

 

Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they'll never work again. 

 

Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. 

 

With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment.

 

With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life - the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. 

 

Why? 

 

Because musicians and singers are willing to give their entire lives to a moment - to that melody, that lyric, that chord, or that interpretation that will stir the audience's soul. 

 

Singers and Musicians are beings who have tasted life's nectar in that crystal moment when they poured out their creative spirit and touched another's heart. 

 

In that instant, they were as close to magic, God, and perfection as anyone could ever be. And in their own hearts, they know that to dedicate oneself to that moment is worth a thousand lifetimes.” 

 

- David Ackert, LA Times

[lunaone]

Everything is free now
That's what they say
Everything I ever done
Gonna give it away.
Someone hit the big score
They figured it out
They were gonna do it anyway
Even if doesn't pay.

I can get a tip jar
Gas up the car
Try to make a little change
Down at the bar.
Or I can get a straight job
I've done it before
Never minded working hard
It's who I'm working for.

Everything is free now
That's what they say
Everything I ever done
Gotta give it away.
Someone hit the big score
They figured it out
They were gonna do it anyway
Even if doesn't pay.

Every day I wake up
Humming a song
But I don't need to run around
I just stay home.
Sing a little love song
My love and myself
If there's something that you want to hear
You can sing it yourself.

'Cause everything is free now
That's what I said
No one's got to listen to
The words in my head.
Someone hit the big score
And I figured it out
That I'm gonna do it anyway
Even if doesn't pay

[sarah b.]

Nice. Thank you all very much.

[TEO]

“We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.” 
― Arthur O'Shaughnessy

 

[Lostsailr]

Mary just got me a copy of The Tachings of don Juan; A Yaqui Way on Knowledge

so I can restart the series and search for the magic again.  Music helps

[tyedyedee]

music is my crack

[Spidergawd]

for me, music = emotion.

 

Yup.  And even though I suck, it's still amazing when music you're making conveys that emotion to others.  Best feeling in the world.

[Jabadoodle]

‎"Singers and Musicians are some of the most driven, courageous people on the face of the earth. They deal with more day-to-day rejection in one year than most people do in a lifetime. 

 

Every day, they face the financial challenge of living a freelance lifestyle, the disrespect of people who think they should get real jobs, and their own fear that they'll never work again. 

 

Every day, they have to ignore the possibility that the vision they have dedicated their lives to is a pipe dream. 

 

With every note, they stretch themselves, emotionally and physically, risking criticism and judgment.

 

With every passing year, many of them watch as the other people their age achieve the predictable milestones of normal life - the car, the family, the house, the nest egg. 

 

...

 

 

 

I've had this kind of thought running around my brain for a while but never was able to express it. This is really well and clearly said. Musicians maybe face this the most. Other artists too, I'm sure. But there are others. People that are on a search for something and that sacrifice the "predictable milestones of a normal life."

Thanks