On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 19:33 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2014-02-08 at 19:08 +0100, Carlos sanchiavedraz wrote: > > 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. 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.. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
