A Quote by Carlo Grante

Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.

Carlo Grante

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Carlo Grante
Born: 1960

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

Carlo Grante

The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.

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Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.

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Noam Chomsky

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There is no fear. There are only two things. Trained and untrained.

Alistair Overeem

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John Kricfalusi

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Karen Salmansohn

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Phil Gingrey

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Gilbert Murray

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