All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. --Walt Whitman
A small group of friends sat in a room around a record player. It was a heavy old thing, with parts that had to be operated by hand and only one speaker - nothing like a modern stereo at all, but more like an antique phonograph. The record - a recording of their favorite music - was old, too, and scratched, its grooves worn smooth as a stone in some places. The tone arm skipped and scratched, and the sound was tinny, hard on the ears.
Most of the friends squirmed in their seats as they listened, and several grumbled that it was impossible to hear the music with such inferior equipment.
But one of the group sat listening, her eyes closed, swaying to the music and humming softly to herself.
"How can you enjoy this?" the others asked.
"Ah," she said with a mysterious smile. "I am listening beyond the recording to the music I know is there!"
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Hey Q, ... this post is another way of answering your question recently, of finding the 'joy' that's all around us yet we fail to realize !!! ... ... ... Sometimes, it's only a matter of tuning out the static and tuning in the beauty that lies within ... ... ...
Love ya man and God Bless, Pappy
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I can relate to that - I had a large record collection when I was a kid, and I wore them out. I drove my dad crazy, lol. He eventually bought me a pair of headphones.
That reminds me of a funny story. I was putting on a Beethoven Symphony one day and dad said, "Don't play that one, we've already heard it". Lol - as if a Beethoven Symphony was some cheap jingle that could be fully comprehended in one hearing.
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The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. ---William James
I love Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Romanovich, Ravel, and many others ... We're in the process of moving back to Tenn. so my wife and I have begun packing some stuff ... one of the 1st things I ran across was a bunch of old LPs ... just cannot part with them ... so I guess I'll be toting those heavy things with me ... LOL
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