Originally Posted by Jimmy James
Kazinator wrote:Almost all musicians are under-appreciated. J. S. Bach is under-appreciated. Frank Zappa is under-appreciated.
Music is everywhere and it is taken for granted, and if you make some of it, you're just a little thread in a huge tapestry.
Even great music will fail to capture people's attentions when it's not in the right setting and mood and their minds are somewhere else. People have to be showing the behavior of receptiveness to music in order to appreciate music, otherwise they will tune it out due to being bombarded by it all their lives.
For example a formal setting creates this "audience behavior". If you put a guy with an acoustic guitar on a designated spot, such as a stage, and there is an audience area, and he is introduced and so forth, , then people will gather and listen, applaud, cheer, even if he's an average crooner. But if the same guy is in front of a liquor store the next day, people will pass him by like he isn't there: unless he's so totally amazing that he breaks through their mental filters that are tuning him out.
That's just the way it is.
Well said.
To answer the OP... I would say most.
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