Music Is Just Fine

Musicians, artists, those who do it for the love of the thing itself and how it makes them feel to be a part of it, they never have to worry.

Sharing art only hurts the greedy.

Music itself is doing just fine.

Music is sound, it is vibrating air, and it is a gift.

We ought to value and compensate the artist, and that is because people who dedicate themselves to the art produce works that make our time here easier, our collective experience more enjoyable, our sorrows more subtle, our highs more sublime. They tell us in our lowest moments that someone else has been there too, and that it was beautiful, that they're still happy to be alive, and you will be too. Even if you can't be right now.

To freely give the gift of music, the happiness and joyful rapture it can convey, to listen together and acknowledge each other as we create real meaning from within the void... that is the only law of my land.

082014