On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Fons Adriaensen<fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 02:51:53PM +0200, Bengt Gördén wrote:>> Den Monday 22 June 2009 14.35.19 skrev Fons Adriaensen:>> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 05:00:26AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:>> > > I vote mostly prophetic.>> >>> > Given that this was written in the early 50s, it is quite>> > prophetic.>>>> On the other hand he is wrong about musical creation being restricted to a>> certain number of people so I vote for him being just dyspeptic.>> He's not saying that musical creation should be restricted to a> small number of predetermined people. But de facto, like all> artistic endeavour, it is a minority activity, We may all be> potential great composers or artists, but most of us do not> exploit that potential, just look around. Maybe 10% of the> population is capable of producing anything that would be> regarded by the remaining 90% as music they'd want to listen to.> Less than 1% could do something that would survive a generation> and become part of music history,>> Ciao,>> --> FA I started to write something similar on my first response but deletedit thinking someone else could do a better job. I'm glad I didn't. Well said and thanks. Cheers,Mark P.S. - I think your numbers are far too optimistic, but maybe the'industry' has both found the 10% that sort of can and lowered thetolerance of the 90% to get them to think they agree? Ah, industry...Better living through chemicals?_______________________________________________Linux-audio-user mailing listLinux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
