Thursday! May 29 2003 // 12:04 pm //
never going to finish
the purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences
Gita Sarabhai (Indian singer & tabla player)
everything in the world has its own spirit which can be released by setting it into vibration
Oskar Fischinger (film maker)
the responsibility of the artist is to imitate nature in her manner of operation
Ananda Coomaraswamy (philosopher / art historian / indologist)
our artists no longer try to put us in touch with God and the eternal, but with the infinity of our own archives
James Flint (journalist / novelist)
i’ve been working and reworking, and re-reworking a post centered around these quotations jeremy sent me. the problem is, it seems there are three voices pointing in one direction, and a fourth taking an opposing stance. this worries me, because my instinct is to choose a side. but the more i read them, i think that this opposition is exactly what i feel every time i set out to make music - or anything, really. there is always a tug toward the spiritual, and simultaneous pulling from… well, i’ve never really been sure of what it is on the other side. reason? vanity? it’s obvious to me that my scales are tipped toward the mysterious and divine, but i haven’t been able to fully articulate why - or more importantly, why not the other way. in any case, i’m going to continue retooling the post i’ve got started, and sometime soon put it up here. until then, i’d love to hear any thoughts you have. or, you could just send me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. i’m really hungry today.
