Living Music

[ken <kenneth.mackendrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn."
   --Charlie Parker

ani difranco has a similar line in one of her songs,

"If you don't live what you sing about, you're mirror is going to
crack."

It seems to me that these are two sides of the same coin.
>From living to the horn and from the song to the singer.
Something about this line (ani's) bugged me though.  Maybe
someone can twirl me in a different direction.  But it seems to
me that the idea here is similar to Marylin Manson's criticism
of Alice Cooper - "hey, what a fake, he took the make up off
when he left the stage."  It seems to me that Cooper was a
pretty bright cookie in this regard - at least he recognized that
it was a show for an audience, while MM seem to think that life
really should imitate art.

I don't know.  There is something kind of antihumanist about
Cooper's reaction (a betrayal of desire?), but it seems,
somehow, sane.  But somehow these lines by Parker and by
Difranco seems, intuitively, correct.

split,
ken