Re: [Harp-L] Creativity

[Vince Meghrouni <Foomcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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Vince Meghrouni
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