Re: [Harp-L] Creativity

[Vince Meghrouni <Foomcorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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