You are what you eat, eats, musically
You are what you eat; and also, “you are what you eat eats,” says author Michael Pollan.
This applies to feeding our creative souls, too. You are what you listen to.
Is your musical playlist dessert or nutritious? Does the contemporary music you enjoy have an inspiration, an understanding, an education of the history of the musical past?
Maybe, we are what we listen to, listens to.
When professor Thomas C Foster guest lectured at my AP class in 2010, he emphasized how all literature is having an implied or direct conversation with the present and past literature; that art is an ongoing conversation of themes, subjects, emotions.
This is a concept from his book, How to Read Like an English Professor. I expect the same from my musicians, to have an understanding of the musical past.
There is nothing wrong with being entertained; but feeding on only candy doesn’t fill the soul.
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