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I’d say I intentionally listen to music maybe an hour total per month, usually while my eyes are occupied.

Meanwhile, outside of museums most landscape art is also advertising. But I’ll spend two or three hours at an art museum when I get the chance.

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I hear music all the time, when I commute, when I drive kids to various clubs, friends, and events, when they put music on at home, when I watch a TV show or a movie - all that music was produced by somebody.

I like art but I cannot remember the last time I went to an exhibition. Certainly not since my wife and I became parents.

"I like music but cannot remember the last time I went to a concert"

That seems like a weird angle to take it, no? I know it's just an example but there is more than one type of artist, just as there's more than one type of musician. As simple as it is, someone needed to design the YCombinator logo. Art is everywhere as well, even on a site like this that doesn't host much visual media.

(P.S. I do remember the last time I went to a concert. October).

Sorry, I cannot follow. But I don't find your first sentence to be weird.

I was mostly just saying that your comparisons seem uneven. You were comparing one specific part of art (landscape painting) to the entire music industry. There more ways to art.

when was the last time you saw something beautiful though? Or just saw something and it made you think.

Yesterday a butterfly got stuck in my pool, I usually try to save them. This one was trying it's hardest to fly but the water on it's wings was just slightly too heavy or something, but it was flapping really hard and making the most amazing ripple in the pool, I froze and couldn't stop looking at the ripple it was making, the ripple frequency and modulation was was slow and totally perfect, even tho it was flapping incredibly hard...but I also thought it's stuck and going to die, but I was totally fixated on the frequency and amplitudes. I managed to break my gaze and got it out. That was the most beautiful thing that made me think recently, I'm still thinking about it.

Now you’ve got me thinking about the beauty in the mundane. The real butterfly effect is the friends we make along the way. You saved the butterfly one time, and in the telling, you’ve helped save my hope in humanity. To me, these moments are as genuinely human as any achievement. To be human is to behold, and to be captivated thus.

Why is that relevant? We're talking about the commercial prospect of making music vs. that of painting landscapes.

just because your eye aren't your ears, and you've been busy, doesn't mean that there isn't a market for visually appealing things.

Everyone knows that music is the objectively superior art form. Perhaps excluding film, which, putting aside scant creative geniuses, requires music and scoring.

Anyone who could live on this planet without music is a psycopath.

People can be so go-go-go they don’t have time to think and reflect. Music is similar, it’s a source of constant distraction for the mind. It’s even more prominent in contemporary music. When listening to pieces more than a thousand years old and you’ll sometimes find works that build meaning into the silence as masterfully as artists compose paintings with negative space. But now it seems any gap must be filled with a beat. Y’all can stay wrapped up in your noise-noise-noise. But do excuse me for being comfortable in the silence of my own thoughts.

yes! i still have the songs i listened to last week echoing around in my head. i foind out i have some kind of memory based perfect pitch, as when i put thr recording on again it's in the same key i was playing it in my head in. i can literally hum every note of it, despite having heard it twice about a week ago, because it was poignant and stuck with me.

silence is golden and allows for reflection upon what we heard

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