31 Mar
2014
31 Mar
'14
3:22 p.m.
On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 15:09 +0200, Gerhard Zintel wrote:
On Monday 31 March 2014, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
No, it isn't. Fons is not completely mistaken, but it isn't that black
and white. I'm a dino, able to compose and to play some instruments,
since this was the only way to make music, when I was young. Nowadays
there are other possibilities to make music. There is also a way to make
music by trail and error. The end result is important, the know-how,
needed time, good or bad intention is unimportant, if people, or at
least the author like/s the result.
Music isn't a competition about smartness.
Your 'musician' is in fact just cannon
fodder for
an industry that is about making fast money and little
else. And he wouldn't even be able to exist without
the efforts of those who can rightly call themselves
musicians and be proud of it.
Very well put