An section from Frank Zappa's autobiography, The Real Frank Zappa Book. I believe it's pure genius, and I wish to share it with the whole three people who will read this.

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively - because, without this humble appliance, you can't KNOW where The Art stops and The Real World begins.

You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, WHAT IS THIS SHIT ON THE WALL?

If John Cage, for instance, says, "I'm putting a contact microphone on my throat, and I'm going to drink carrot juice, and that's my composition," then his gurgling qualifies as HIS COMPOSITION because he put a frame around it and said so. "Take it or leave it, I now WILL this to be MUSIC." After that it's a matter of taste. Without the frame-as-announced, it's a guy swallowing carrot juice.

So, if music is the best, what IS music? Anything CAN be music, but it doesn't BECOME MUSIC until someone wills it to be music, and the audience listening to it decides to PERCEIVE IT AS MUSIC.

Most people can't deal with that abstraction - or don't want to. They say: "Gimmie THE TUNE. Do I like this TUNE? Does it sound like another TUNE THAT I LIKE? The more familiar it is, THE BETTER I LIKE IT. Hear those three notes there? Those are the three notes I can sing along with. I like those notes VERY, VERY MUCH. Give me a beat. Not a fancy one. Give me a GOOD BEAT - something I can dance to. It has to go boom-bap, boom-boom-BAP. If it doesn't, I will HATE it VERY, VERY MUCH. Also, I want it RIGHT AWAY - and then, write me some more songs like that - over and over and over again, because I'm REALLY into MUSIC.

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Now, I've finally found someone to say EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN THINKING MY ENTIRE LIFE. Kudos to those who listen to music they truly like and that isn't completely manufactured and about the image and the motherfucking BEAT, and fuck the rest of you with your heads planted firmly in your asses ^_^

Shauna out.