Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Keeping to herself …

… Bryan Appleyard — Joni Mitchell: Paradise by the Dashboard Light. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

She tells me that, while in her Canadian home, she made herself listen to one music radio station a day, and found ­nothing of value after six days. “There’s not much talent in this generation, and what there is wasn’t that good in the first place. People of my dad’s generation would say, ‘Oh, I can’t carry a tune’ — they used to know they were no good. Now everybody tells people they are great, whatever happens. People are crappy and they don’t know it — the delusion mushroomed.”
Someone had to say it.

3 comments:

  1. What an awesome profile!

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  2. Yes. I was thinking of sending Bryan a fan letter. No one does this sort of thing better.

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  3. Pls mention my appreciation in a line there as well, Frank. (Apologies for free-riding!)

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