
“you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
“you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.”
The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)
Context: The Ultimate Rule ought to be: 'If it sounds GOOD to you, it's bitchin'; if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's shitty. The more your musical experience, the easier it is to define for yourself what you like and what you don't like. American radio listeners, raised on a diet of _____ (fill in the blank), have experienced a musical universe so small they cannot begin to know what they like.
Part 4, Chapter 21, Globalization, p. 254
Economics For Everyone (2008)
Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.”