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Quote Of The Day
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From: Christopher Helms <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Quote Of The Day
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:49:13 -0800
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On Nov 7, 10:33 am, Tom Hanks With The Aids <tehMottJu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> "Music kind of sucks. Nobody's into being a musician. Everybody's
> getting their mogul on. You've been so infiltrated by this corporate
> mentality that all the time you'd spend getting great songs together,
> you're busy doing nine other things that have nothing to do with art.
> You know how shitty Stevie Wonder's songs would have been if he had to
> run a fuckin' clothing company and a cologne line? ... Rap sucks, for
> the most part. Not all rap, but as an art form it's just not at its
> best moment. Sammy the Bull would have made a shitty album. And I
> don't really have a desire to hear Warren Buffett's album - or the new
> CD by Paul Allen. That's what everybody's aspiring to be."
>
> - Chris Rock tells the new issue of Rolling Stone
What does it mean when Chris Rock makes a coherent, sensible statement
about the coporatization of music to a burned out magazine that has
become the living embodiment of the corporatization of music? I'm glad
he said it. Maybe there was nobody else to say it to.
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