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Their wordsif art is what happens when a certain prompt (a song, an essay, a painting) interacts with a certain mind, the experiences that artists can create is strictly limited by the quality of their audiences.
Their wordsMost of the landscapes we would find if we enumerated all possible musical grammars would be barren. There are an infinite number of possible musics, and only a very small subset of them will resonate with the human soul.
Their wordswhen you put them next to the endless diversity of art and world music, it's clear that commercial pop, hip-hop, and rock are really three villages in the same small valley.
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