Musicians

for this very kind and considerate response...it brought a smile to a face that hasn't sported many of those the past few years.

"Re wanting to change/save the world with your art... Very few artists have, at least in terms of having a visible effect that created what they wanted. The idealistic musicians of the '60s would not have expected Reagan to become president, let alone Trump."

I always think of the song Imagine by John Lennon. Probably a billion people have been exposed to that song in one form or another...even if it's just as instrumental elevator music. Out of all those people, how many really took the ideals in the lyrics to heart and, out of them, how many tried to live up to those ideals? So if an artist of his stature couldn't make a change, it's sheer hubris for someone on my level to think that I'd have had a shot at it.

But if one is going to have an aim in life, an altruistic one is not a bad thing...even if any effect is just an incremental one. So I don't feel bad about my part in it all.

Again...thank you so much for the kind words, it's VERY much appreciated.