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It's interesting that we can see things so differently. I am a musician and I agree that there is somehing "divine" (i am not religious) about many of these "gods". However, they inspire me. Like a million other guitar players, I almost revere John Coletrane. Not because someone told me too, but because his lines are so graceful. Many of his runs translate well to guitar, even though they are not the kind of stuff that usually falls naturally on the guitar neck.
Then again I believe that art takes skill. Great art trancends the medium in which it was performed. I see Blue Train, I hear Scream, I don't look at Mona Lisa, she looks at me.
I think we should remember history, learn from it, correct upon it, expand it and be part of it. Of course many people disagree with me, but my life would certainly be emptier and less enjoyable without having these heroes to look up to.
I am perhaps not smart enough or talented enough to live solely on my own, and I find it better to look for influences among things that I find great, that is made with love and skill, than it is to do the same things over and over whenever I am stuck in a rut.
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