From: "Manuel Kalmanovitz G." <mk-AT-calle22.com>
Subject: RE: What's wrong with mainstream sensibilities?
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 14:21:06 -0500


More about suffering... just received a nice quote from another list...

"The people that think that writers have to suffer for their art are usually
publishers", Harlan Ellison.

Just remembered a very big example of great artist with not too much
suffering... how about Johan Sebastian Bach?

And then you have Tori Amos and all those conflicted singer-songwriters who
wear their suffering on their sleeves... is really suffering a guarantee of
better, more profound, art? I don't think so.

And about what Lita was asking... I think in some cases it's more important
to have opinions than to analyze. I, mean, you can understand something and
still don't like it. I remember an article by a music critic of the New York
Times saying just that... that he understood Schoenberg but still didn't
like him.

cheers,
Manuel



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