in order to justify statements that otherwise make no sense?


>first off, did you even read the article since you've stated
>repeatedly that you haven't, yet, you're commenting on what
>was said in the article as if you have.

I didn't have to read the article to comment upon the Zappa comment, because (even though the author of the article apparently does not acknowledge it in the piece) that comment was actually taken directly from THIS very message board on which we are occupying space right now.

Secondly, I didn't
>read that as Quest comparing his guitar playing to Zappa but
>more abt the fact they're both self taught guitarist. Coult be
>wrong but that's how I read it because the article talked abt
>how D'angelo has threw himself into teaching himself how to
>play the guitar.

Oh... That's how you read it, is it?

Did you read the entire quote, or just the part of it that allows you to read some unassociated meaning into it?

"...He can play the shit out of it, and I don't mean no Lil Wayne shit."

Lil Wayne is a self-taught guitarist too, isn't he?


>I mean this is where common sense has to come in to play lol.
>How does anyone speak for all the 10s of thousands of
>independent and unheard artists out there vis-a-vis their
>purity lol. Even when we discuss artists in general on this
>board, we're talking abt artists who the vast majority of ppl
>can reference.

So you admit that it was a ridiculous statement.

Glad you finally came around.


>>Art is a process that is completed when the work is
>delivered
>>to the audience. If you write a novel and put it in a
>drawer,
>>it's technically unfinished. Are you really an artist if you
>>are not putting your work in front of an audience... or are
>>you a hobbyist?
>
>No its not, art is art, whether its put out for commercial
>consumption or not. The music can be released posthumously as
>is the case w/many artists.

Yeah, but even if it is released posthumously, at least it is RELEASED.

Until it's released to an audience in some form (and mind you, I didn't even say "commercially") it's just hobbyism.