From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 16:38:51 GMT
Dear Poot,
> Platt: Why mess around with less than the best of human achievement? Why
> compromise on quality?
> ME: As soon as you say, Mozart is the crowning human achievement in music,
> Only listen to the best, you turn into Plato's dearest companion. You FIX
> the idea of Quality, binding it, restricting it. You subtract from Quality
> itself, by limiting what it can be, what it can be found in, etc.
Yes, I FIX the idea of Quality, just as Pirsig does. "Quality is direct
experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions." (Lila,
Chp. 5) So long as I am am of sound mind and body, I am "fixed" in
Quality.
Having said that, I'm limited, as is everyone, by my life history which
includes exposure to Herbie Hancock, Winton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Miles
Davis, Errol Garner, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk,
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole Trio, the
Benny Goodman Quartet, Count Basie, Stan Kenton and other jazz greats too
numerous to mention. I enjoy listening to them all as well as to Crosby,
Sinatra, Como, Bennett, Fitzgerald and other pop singers who not only
could carry a tune, but carry a concert without the support of a bunch of
partially clad gyrating girls and sequin-bedecked crotch-grabbing boys.
So, I disagree with your premise about "fixed" Quality. There is good
music and crap, and you know the difference as well as anybody.
Regards,
Platt
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