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Re: (TV) Matter of Taste / Wrong / Can't Dance / Non-Musician-Angle



> He was saying being a formally-trained musician was
> not the only way to get there. Hell, the Beatles
> couldn't read music. Andy Patridge of XTC can't read
> music. Partridge says that printed out music looks
> "like crows on a wire" to him.  This didn't stop
> them, and it didn't stop Eno either. 


dylan also cannot read music (am reading the great
dylan bio _no direction home_).  and ornette coleman
actually learned chord structure backwards, in some
odd way; he is a great example of a "non-musician" in
this sense (tho' miles really ragged on him for trying
new instruments this way).

r


	
		
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