Contexte: The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.
Piero Scaruffi: Citations en anglais
“Zappa was not a protester or an activist. He was merely a man who used his brain.”
Zappa The History of Rock Music http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/zappa.html
Elitist Art, Unpopular Art and Popular Art http://scaruffi.com/phi/syn157.html
“Why are there age limits? why is it illegal to marry a 12-year old?”
Contexte: Why are there age limits? why is it illegal to marry a 12-year old? Helen of Troy was 12. Juliet and Cleopatra were still teenagers when they became famous. Most heroines of classic novels and poems were underage by today's laws. Thomas Edison married a 16-year-old. Medical studies show that the best age for a woman to have children is between 15 and 25 (lowest chances of miscarriage, of birth defects and, last but not least, of the woman dying while giving birth); while the worst age is after the mid 30s. And the younger you are, the more likely you are to cement a real friendship with your children; the older you are, the more likely that the "generational gap" will hurt your children's psychology. Therefore it is much more natural to have a child at 16 than at 40.
Of heroes and thugs: African-American males and white cops http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/usa14.html#usa1214
Beatles The History of Rock Music http://www.scaruffi.com/vol1/beatles.html
“Trump is not an idiot at all, but those who voted for him are.”
Protest and Boycott http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/lockhimup.html#usa1216a
The Two Cultures of the Smartphone Age http://www.scaruffi.com/phi/syn137.html
Oingo Boingo The History Of Rock Music http://www.scaruffi.com/vol4/oingo.html
Famous Homosexual People http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/gays.html
Why I voted against "gay" marriage http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/usa08.html#usa1108c
Piero Scaruffi quotes (as selected by his readers) http://www.scaruffi.com/quotes.html
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