The Human Condition (some of it)

I think music and musicians are able to communicate better than anyone else. They find ways to construct ideas and feelings and impressions without resorting to words, thereby bypassing that inherent problem of misinterpretation; nobody needs any training to 'get' music; everyone is born with the capacity to appreciate it, much like we are innately predisposed to generating language. Becoming a musician or studying music often leads to interesting discoveries and powerful inspirations, but the value of appreciation does not necessarily differ between a professional musician and a homeless person (which sometimes are the same thing, unfortunately). However, everyone can respond differently to music itself. Not everyone appreciates the noisy, barely musical abberations of Anal Cunt, and not everyone swoons to the pacifying redundancy of Coldplay. But it can be safely asserted that as far as appreciation goes, music can reach all people on all levels. As far as I can tell, othing else holds that particular honour. Going back to musicians being able to communicate, if you can't in fact play or sing very well yet still achieve multi-mega units of sale, you still communicate well, it's just that you communicate that your goals are not entirely noble, capitalizing on the confusion between fashion, minimalism and capitalism, who, in terms of creativity, should be playing with a rock or something equally suited to your level of skill. A lot of music production falls victim to ideological promotion, masking or destroying that creative impulse to generate something to communicate with other people simply for the purpose of fostering expression, appreciation and connectivity.