Re: [Harp-L] Creativity



You bring me great honor


On May 26, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Whiteboy Slim (maurice richard libby) wrote:


Since someone brought up Bruce Lee, there is a Zen story he tells in "Enter the Dragon" when he tells his student that when someone points to the moon, don't fixate on the finger or you will miss "all that celestial glory". I think Vince hits the nail on this one. We, in this culture, tend to spend far too much time concentrating on all the peripherals, and forget the thing we supposedly are about. Great music is still great music, even if there is only one person who ever heard it, and they are now dead.

The fact that fifty million or so people watched American Idol, still doesn't make it music.

maurice

Vince Meghrouni wrote:
The point to me is who gives a flyin' funnel cake who on a discussion list will be remembered twenty years from now. The important thing is making the music, period. If someone is debating the relevance and level of creativity, etc., of this person or that, it is as useful as the age-old angels on the head of a pin colloquy. The play is the thing as the old barde said. If one is caught up in worrying that the harp player is considered a second class musical citizen, one is spending too much time worrying about one's place in some abstract hierarchy and not spending enough time enjoying playing. Let history decide who is considered what. History is not always right, anyway. There will always be the unsung. There will always be those innovating in relative obscurity. Stop worrying about it and play, says I. Ok. Fire away. I have lashed myself to the mast.

Rex "Rich" Tobago
Professional harmonica owner

On May 26, 2007, at 10:33 AM, B Boggs wrote:

With all the posts about creativity and eastern mysticism I am intrigued. The traditions of the teacher and student in the east exemplified a focus of diminishing the egos expression in boastful, strident ways which are driven by fear and ignorance. Bruce Lee had an enormous ego. He also understood it's penalties.I am not comparing any one to Bruce Lee. He was a real artist, in spite of his ego.
I wonder what players will be remembered for their music twenty years from now.





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