XPost: rec.music.bluenote, rec.music.makers.guitar.jazz   
   From: jcmartin@sonic.net   
      
   The Enunciator wrote:   
   > JC Martin wrote:   
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   >>Listen, ya grabbed a dictionary and then mis-used it.  The first   
   >>definition is *human creativity*.  The second is *skill*.  The third   
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   >>*any craft or its principles*.  Where in there does it say *all art   
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   >>entertainment*?  That's just silly.   
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   > Nothing silly about it at all.   
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   >>It's really hard for me to even   
   >>take that concept seriously since it doesn't reflect the reality that   
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   >>myself have experience with.   
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   > Everyone's "reality" is limited.   
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   >>I myself create art not to entertain but   
   >>for my own personal expression and growth as a human being.   
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   > You are entertaining yourself.  Lots of jazz musicians with miniscule   
   > audiences are nearly the same.   
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   >>There are   
   >>many artists I know who don't entertain people as well.  They simply   
   >>create art.  Now you may not understand why people have that impulse.   
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   >>But that's your hang-up.   
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   > I don't think there is any question people have an urge to create.  But   
   > nearly everyone who does so creates for pleasure - either their own or   
   > for others.   
      
      
   As I said, grab your dictionary.  The rest is just your misguided opinion.   
   -JC   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)