by no means was i reflecting on your words, i was speaking in generalities. i agree that a listener & a musician both get different senses of pleasure & purpose from a jam; however, that can be said for music as a whole. music is what you make of it, & what holds meaning to you could either hold an entirely different meaning, or even be completely meaningless, to someone else. also, what meaning it holds to the musician can hold an entirely different purpose & profundity to the listener, according to their own experiences & perspective.

i should point out & reiterate though, that i am a musician - i just don't play with the same frequency that i used to. like i said, i find the art of self-ordainment & restraint to be much more effective than jamming, but that's just my perspective - as we all have our own.