The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #165352   Message #3965527
Posted By: Steve Shaw
08-Dec-18 - 06:37 PM
Thread Name: do songwriters' personal lives matter?
Subject: RE: do songwriters' personal lives matter?
That is all very true, and I return again to my original point, that we all make our own considered decisions, draw our own red lines, or don't even bother to dig deeper for we don't want to, and no-one should think less of us for that. Personally, I put art slightly above food production and delivery. At risk of sounding severely biased, when I listen to Wagner I hear his overblown ego coming through the threadbare superficiality of his "art." Conversely, I hear Beethoven's sheer humanity coming through in his music, as well as his flaws. Art is all about communicating. It must be quite hard to conceal your nastiness in beautiful art, which is surely a product of your soul.