Music and Life

In music, one doesn't make the end of a composition the point of a composition! If that was so, the best conductors will be those who played fastest. And there will be composers who wrote only finales. People go to concert only to here one crushing call because that's the end.

But we don't see that as something brought by our education in to our everyday conduct. We got a system of schooling that gives a completely different impression.

It's all graded. And what we do, we put the child in to the corridor of this grade system with a kind of "come on... kitty kitty kitty!" And they are going to the kindergartner, and that's a great thing because when you finish that you go in the first grade, and then come on: first grade leads to second grade and so on, and then you get out of the grade-school and you got high-school, and it's raving up the thing is coming, then you go to college, and by jovian you get in to graduate-school and when you are threw with that you go out and join the world! Then you go in to some racket you are selling insurance, and they got that quarter to make, and you're gone make that, and all the time the thing is coming, is coming, is coming, that great thing, the success you were working for. And then when you wake up one day about 40" years old you say: "My gad have arrived!", "I'm there!". And you don't feel very different from what you always felted. And it is a slide "let down" because you feel it was a hoax, and it was a hoax! a dreadful hoax! they made you miss everything!

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end and the thing was to get to that end, success or what ever it is, or maybe heaven after you're dead. But.. we miss the point the hole way along! It was a musical thing and you was supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.