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- From: metlay@NETCOM.COM (metlay)
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- Subject: Re: Composing philosophies from a "gearhead"
- Message-ID: <9212211504.AA00666@netcom.netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:04:08 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: <9212211244.AA18802@minerva.phyast.pitt.edu>; from "Mark
- Borcherding" at Dec 21, 92 6:45 am
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- >
- >I agree with your line of thought and think it is this very type of exploritory
- > thought that takes us new places. Are waterfalls, surfs, lightning, or wind
- >just a "sound effect". I approach music the same way I draw that is to put
- >something where there was nothing. I feel compelled to do this. I have seen the
- >results of people with "Professional training" and not much creativity. They
- >are so busy analyzing their work with a scanning electron microscope, that they
- >miss if their listeners (customers) appreciate their work. I am convinced these
- >people simply cannot understand what motivates hard-core artists like yourself
- >me, and others that seek art for something other a ego massage.
-
- Well, that's a nice sentiment, but I should point out that I GET an ego
- massage from my work. Sorry. |->
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