On 1/3/10, Ricardus Vincente <wizardofgosz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 11:13 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote: > Was that in The Real Frank Zappa Book? > > I have to find my copy of that, because he had a REALLY GOOD rant > against people who think they like music.... as long as it sounds just > like every other song that goes BOOM... CHUCK... BOOM... CHUCK. > > I have been wanting to quote that for years. Do you mean this? <quote> So, if music is the best, what is music? Anything can be music, but it doesn't become music until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to perceive it as music. Most people can't deal with that abstraction -- or don't want to. They say: "Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is, the better I like it. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes very, very much. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT -- something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will hate it very, very much. Also, I want it right away -- and then, write me some more songs like that -- over and over and over again, because I'm really into music." </quote> Andras _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
