The answer to war…

Recently posted by Josef Verba on LinkedIn

Music and creativity that comes with it is the antidote to violence and war. It is impossible to create while wishing to destroy. Giving life with music and to music can not coexist with taking life.

Now some may ask what about the drums of war? What of the kinds of music where violence is celebrated in modern times? What of creating out of destruction of the old?…

I would pose this as an open discussion because my assertion is that genuine music is the closest a man will ever know of giving birth. It is that pure love that I speak of that one would not wish to ever be confused with something utilitarian or pathological any more then a new child of a parent.

Music born out of introspection and passion for life and its beauty, can not lead to violence. It may be an expression of great sorrow and sadness, anger and indignation, resigned loss of hope or a renewal of hope, love, lust and triumph… But it is an experience of catharses that cleanses the soul and the mind and allows renewal within the sphere of existence that otherwise separates all living beings by their shells of bodies and ego born out of memory and experience. Music at its genuine best is a universal language that unites and connects all life within it and beyond it.