The Role of Music

[undercrypt]

In the great engine of life, music is not the crankshaft. Music is not a piston or a gear or a gasket. It's not a spark plug. It isn't even the fuel.

Music is the lubrication. The engine can run for a while without it, but it will soon grind to a halt - making some really ugly noises in the process.

Comments

[corvuse]

Nice.

[kynthos333]

So, just wondering. To extend the metaphor . . . music often leads to dance (fancy that, me talking about dance). So, is dance a piston? Is dance a spark plug? Is dance the forward (or other) motion of the engine in question, properly lubricated by the music?

Or is my brain simply playing with itself in bizarre and unfruitful ways right now?

[undercrypt]

Is dance the forward (or other) motion of the engine in question, properly lubricated by the music?

I'd go with that. Dance is the engine in motion - without it, the engine isn't an engine, it's an inert lump.

But I'm prone to a very broad interpretation of dance.