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Art and disease proliferate via contagion, and similar conditions favor both.Ted Gioia
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The work of art always requires us to adapt to it–and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exactly what it wants. We can tell that we are encountering a real work of art by the degree to which it resists subjectivity.Ted Gioia
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By the way, this tells you why Auto-Tuned vocals on many contemporary records sound so shallow and lifeless. It’s almost as if everything we learned from African American music during the twentieth century was thrown out the window by technologies in the twenty-first century. The goal should not be to sing every note dead center in the middle of the pitch---we escaped from that musical prison a hundred years ago. Why go back? In an odd sort of way, much of contemporary pop music resembles opera, with all the subtle shadings of bent notes and microtonal alterations abandoned in the quest for mathematically pure tones. .Ted Gioia
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In every sphere of social interaction, that hermeneutic leap–that ability to put yourself in the mind frame of the other–is a virtue and a blessing.Ted Gioia
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When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won’t notice the theft.Ted Gioia