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Originally Posted by Dan Gilbert
[*]A much greater percentage of great jazz artists have been notoriously doped up, in which condition your intellectual capabilities to process complex thought are severely hindered.
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They were doped up every minute of their lives? I didn't know that.
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[*]The progression of Classical music has been in the hands of the smartest elites in society. Jazz is derived from the various musical stylings of poor, uneducated people.
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The amount of money you have and your class has absolutely nothing to do with your musical ability.
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[*]How can something which is improvised by nature be as complex as something which is highly premeditated and worked on for a very long period of time?
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Classical music, and music in general, originated out of improvisation. Remember that fugue, thought to be one of the more complex forms, was also an improvisatory practice. Add to that that many pieces of classical music are just improvisations written down, and your point makes little sense.