Readings are more like weaving a tapestry. Possibly people are getting a cathartic release - but music is physical. Music pummels you. It's got a beat; it's loud. Whereas this is more cerebral.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to.
When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.
It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music.
Faith is reason plus revelation, and the revelation part requires one to think with the spirit as well as with the mind. You have to hear the music, not just read the notes on the page.
And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.
Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
I don't play any instruments, but I do read a lot.
I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.
I've always said that music is like literature.
Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.