Re: Welcome back Will!
Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:57:05 -0700 (PDT)
--- AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/17/99 2:56:04 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, wh14@is9.nyu.edu
> writes:
I can
> imagine Holden wanting to get beyond phony
> conventions
> convention before they
> choose to deviate.
>
> Joyce told one heck of a good short story before he
> tackled Finnegan's
> Wake...
>
> Jim
and two more examples:
Beethoven learned Mozart and Hyden then he did the late string
quartets.
Charlie Parker once said something like (quoted or paraphrased in Ross
Russell's biography which some people have criticised): first you learn
your instrument, then theory, then the music, then you forget all that
shit and just play.
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