Why most musicians are progressives

From Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs:

Music drawn from memory, he writes, “has many of the same effects as real music coming from the external world.”  It has the additional bonus of drawing attention to otherwise overlooked or repressed thoughts, and in this way may serve a function similar to that of dreams.

(page 40 quoting Anthony Storr)

Me:  Have you ever wondered why musicians tend not to be on the right?  When I read this in Musicophilia, I thought about that.  All the repression of conservatism is not compatible with music and its effect on the brain.  Did it seem like George Bush was a funky cat?  Mentally ill, but not funky.

There you have it from a ghetto philosopher.  It is my contention, completely unquantified but verified by my own life experience that music makes you less repressed, and really repressed people tend not to like music.