Julian Johnson quotes

“Rock music is rhythmically some of the most impoverished music the world has ever heard, a fact that is hard to square with the sophisticated technologies that produced it.”
-- Julian Johnson

Source : Julian Johnson (2011). “Who Needs Classical Music?: Cultural Choice and Musical Value”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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