[MD] Creative Freedom in Jazz

[X Acto]

Dan:
I tend to think of art as more of an act than an object, I suppose.
And I am sure there are as many definitions of art as there are
artists so I see nothing wrong with your definition above.

Still, the flash of inspiration that appears out of nowhere, something
new and surprising, is the primal response we feel to this experience
we call life, or Dynamic Quality. By carefully honing the skills it
takes to recognize and make use of this response, we come to know
ourselves... the unexamined life not being worth living, and what
not...

I get the feeling many people cover this up by working a regular job,
by watching television, by playing video games, by endlessly surfing
the 'net... by doing anything that covers up that tiny voice crying
out in the wilderness... that creative urge we all feel if only we
allow ourselves a moment of silence.

Ah... but what of that...

Ron:
I believe the aim is to recognize that flash of inspiration in a regular job
watching t.v. or what ever it is we are doing, silence or not, to weave
it into the everyday in everyway.
 
The trapped feeling we get, those gumption traps, traps in logic and thinking
that drive one to search for Quality in the biological when they can't see it in
the social or the intellectual is the static bogeyman we all seek to triumph over.
 
 
..Thnx Dan