Whatever you put in is what will come out, recycled as something else. For instance, I wonder about using music with lyrics as a "background" for painting.  Personally, I use instrumental music.  If I hear lyrics it activates my left brain, which tends to think of...

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lauded works of our favorite composers today?  Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and, more’s the pity, the fashions of time, only that which is good and true, will endure like a...