"To a degree I will agree with you, nothing tastes sweeter than the first breath of a man who has been drowning or suffocating, drawing in fresh air even though it burns him. However some would argue that food, or fuel as you so kindly widened the parametres of this discussion to include, is a necessity, and as such taken for granted, we become use to it, blase if you will, and we can not escape that it is something that has to be done. We are bound to eating, and our enjoyment of food, by the legacy of ancestors in the case of organics. I on the other hand have no pleasure from being fed energy from my power generators, despite it being quite as necessary. And I think you might be selling music a little short. So much more with food? You state four category's: look, taste, texture, composition, and yet music has so much more than that. You have the exquisite melody's and bass lines, perhaps dozens of other instruments playing, and working together to create a layered effect of great magnificence, you man tempo, dynamics, the unique 'flavour' of every interest, much as an ingredient, and yet each instrument can do so much more than a fish on a plate, capable of in itself playing a tune that will touch someone on a far deeper level than, "Oh I like this steak". which by the way I do. Taste of food is a fleeting thing, going from meal to meal, and a taste is usually forgotten easily, apart from perhaps "Oh that was nice, perhaps we should go there again." Music can stay with you for years, and can have life-changing impacts, in all doing so much more than even the most delicious meal could do. A meal may be essential for 'life', but music is a key to 'Life'." Kip responded passionately.
