| The secret to enjoying good music is amnesia. How many times will I have to learn this before the lesson finally sinks in? If I didn’t think tattoos were the most boring thing in the world I’d have the words inked onto my forearm. The secret to enjoying good music is amnesia. The nature of the critical enterprise as it’s generally understood -- “become well-studied in as much music as you can, then interpret the general matrix as you understand it” -- is ludicrously off-base. Forgetting is everything. Ignorance is bliss. |