What is good music?

At this point everyone is more or less aware how Simon & Garfunkel have the unique capability to transpire profound emotion through their songs. Their work had showcased for decades what many people call 'good music'. They certainly brought moments of many joys to millions of people around the world. A wonderful career composed of great music.

If I had to say what good music boils down to, and art for that matter, is that which has the capability to transmit and provoke a kind of extraordinary response to the listener's inner experience.

I was always very much attracted to what people categorize as 'sad songs'. Since I was a kid listening to the american folk classics, there was this search for the plenitude and quietness these songs brought me. It didn't have to do with misery as people like to put it but more like intimacy. I suppose that's why people used 'sad songs' with a bad connotation. Intimacy may be terrifying, in despite of our constant longing of it.

These songs were a doorway to the rejoicing of togetherness, of the great human family - as many songs sang the resolution of the burdens and hardships of the human soul. Not that they had definite advise that would solve heartbreak or life's misshapens. But the mere fact of bringing up the issue exposed it to the Space that we all share.

A cry in the void for no one in particular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqJvqMeaDtU

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