“The web is creating a more open society, it is allowing more people to speak out. It’s only natural that upsets some people.” – Egyptian Blogger Amr Gharbeia to the BBC.
i was wondering how you can replace ‘The web’ in that quote with ‘Rock music’ and it’d still make sense. i guess every generation finds its own tools to explore its unique voice. It just seems like the web is a lot more inclusive, in that it has a lot more people playing with it, and a lot more expressive because of the sheer breadth of human experience that it manages to contain within its foggy confines.
On that note…
Pablo Picasso - “Youth has no age.”
“This wide love for the art springs from the singing school, secular or sacred; from the village band, and from the study of those instruments that are nearest the people. There are more pianos, violins, guitars, mandolins, and banjos among the working classes of America than in all the rest of the world, and the presence of these instruments in the homes has given employment to enormous numbers of teachers who have patiently taught the children and inculcated a love for music throughout the various communities. [And when machines produce music?] And what is the result? The child becomes indifferent to practice, for when music can be heard in the homes with-out the labor of study and close application, and without the slow process of acquiring a technic, it will be simply a question of time when the amateur disappears entirely… The tide of amateurism cannot but recede, until there will be left only the mechanical device and the professional executant.
- John Phillip Sousa, The Menace of Mechanical Music, Appleton’s Magazine 9 (1906).
Incidentally, I saw this quote on Lawrence Lessig’s post about
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