From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 13:29:14 GMT
> But what if "trash can music" effects a person unlike any Mozart music
> ever
> would? Does that make this person "less"?
>
> not at all, if you would like my opinion. it was said that everyone has a
> different store of analogues and therefore experiences quality differently.
> besides, who's to say "trascan music" doesn't have more "quality" than
> Mozart?
Who's to say anything is better than anything else?
i'd say it's certainly much more original.
Originality means quality? Framing a piece of shit and hanging it on your
wall will certainly be "original."
take john cage, for
> example.
Never heard of him. Who is John Cage and why should I care?
but i think this kind of goes to back the discussion about "which
> religion is the best", about which my input was that we needn't rank
> everything. music, and art in general, may be one of those things. whose to
> say if Bach is better than Cage? what's the criteria?
Who's to say anything is better than anything else?
Platt
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