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Tony Rees Why do people make music? - NY Times (35) RE: Why do people make music? - NY Times 17 May 24


A number of years ago, a then local folk music club advertised its scope as "music to make you think and feel". I think that is not a bad way to sum it up. The words component of music (also poetry) can/should make you think, also you get feelings which are enhanced by the addition of music, and/or the music alone, and which cannot always be expressed in words, as has been said above.

When all else is said, how you feel about something is probably the ultimate arbiter of human existence... you can feel good or bad, even about dying or being in pain (?), and it is the feeling that matters (I think...)

- Tony


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