Not many people understand that it is the music itself that I am talking about, not just the words, and that music has a definite effect upon living things. Meanwhile, I have watched the state of music in the world plummet. I had already had my excursion into negative music. Mine lasted for several years. For the past thirty years I have been witnessing a long, slow decline in the state of music in the world around me, and few people seem to be aware of it.
Music is an art.
It is a very special and very sacred art. Being as aware of this as I am, it is disturbing to me to realize the position that music holds in the world today. What I would do if I could only help people who haven't had the opportunity to experience the kind of feelings that I experience when I listen to music. How painful it is for me when I talk with young people today who are convinced that minimalism is something to be taken seriously, or that John Cage s music is actually worth listening to. I realize that not all contemporary popular music is negative, but a lot of it is.