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On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 23:17 +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
> >  Was that in The Real Frank Zappa Book?

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> >

> >  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?

>

>

> 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."

>

>

> Andras

 That's the one.  Thanks!  You are the bomb-skiddly-shiznit.
 Rich...
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