Moderators isaac42 Posted January 13, 2007 Moderators Share Posted January 13, 2007 "Classes will dull your mind; destroy the capacity for authentic creativity." -John Nash, Nobel Prize winning mathematicianThink about it... None of knowledge's greatest growths or achievements were "taught" to the person who pioneered them. No one told Edison how to make a light bulb. No one told Newton about gravity. Columbus was "taught" that he would sail off the edge of the Earth and perish. Not so. Josef Haydn studied with Johann Matthias Franck. Both Mozart and Beethoven studied with Haydn. I think what John Nash was talking about is regular classes, in which a group of people are taught certain things at certain times, usually at a level just below average, and any thoughts outside of the curriculum are at best frowned upon, or even prohibited.So you are right, in a sense. No one taught Newton about gravity, but Newton himself said that he "stood on the shoulders of giants", meaning that he built upon the acheivements of others. If he hadn't already learned what others had done, he'd have spent his life reinventing the wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members way2fat Posted January 13, 2007 Members Share Posted January 13, 2007 IME, the majority of them are not educated musicians. So they don't even know what's original and what's not. They just think that they can slap 2 or 3 chords into a progression... scream into a mic... and they'll be famous.meh... whatever. From what I hear being played, lots of them ARE famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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