8 Feb
2014
8 Feb
'14
7:59 p.m.
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 19:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 19:08 +0100, Carlos
sanchiavedraz wrote:
PS: I guess not only musicians, but all artists are more awake than most
non-artists. If you e.g. draw for children, you will give a drawn horse
human features by drawing the eyes in front of the head. A real horse
has got the eyes on the sides of the head, but usually nobody does
notice this "mistake". IOW to make music, to draw a picture, to write a
story, there is the need to care about nature, to reflect opinions etc..
P.S.2: talking about well-meaning envy, and
myself being some kind of
a musician in some way, I've found this beautiful sentence:
"Eisenberg goes on to describe musicians as "self-conscious birds" who
have music both in their muscles and in their minds.And that must be a
wonderful state of being. It is for this reason that I have a certain
well-meaning envy of musicians."
Music seems to be a good training against dementia and even seems to
protect against effects of Alzheimer's disease, OTOH a lot of disorders
are more often for artists, depressions, personality disorders, left vs
right cerebral hemisphere, IOW artists are more often left-hander,
dyslexics etc. and even while making music seems to protect against
dementia and effects of Alzheimer, musicians are more often addicted to
evil, life-endangering drugs, they are more often nerds etc., so the
resume seems to be that the pros come with contras². IMO the only real
pro of being a musician is to have fun, when making music and many of us
"suffer" from synesthesia, so we don't need drugs to experience what
most people only could experience when taking drugs.