Originally Posted By: HearToLearn
My goodness, I have sort of stay out of this battle up to this point. I feel music, just like beauty, is in the ear/eye of the beholder. To sit an argue over it seems a bit crazy to me.

For me, music is expression. It's emotion via sound. I really don't care how it is created. If someone expresses themselves in a creative way, and they want to call it music, good for them. I may not like it, but I do like that they do! If that creation is heard by someone else who also enjoys it, and it moves them, good for them. Mission accomplished in my book.

We use different processes to achieve this. To look at a guitar and think it is a natural instrument is strange to me. It's a traditional instrument, but it's not like the guitar just happens in nature.

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To me, comparing this scrawny, unwashed button-pusher to Igor Stravinsky is absurd.

I don't know that anyone was.

I don't think you could compare most guitarists to him either.

What this guys appearance has to do with it, I'll never know. Again, could apply to many guitarists as well...or any other "musician."

An instrumentalist is someone who plays an instrument.

In my book, a musician is someone who makes music/a song.








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