Critics

I wrote “Highland Aire” in Sonata Allegro form, no jazz journalist ever noted that, I think it was because they both didn't understand Sonata Allegro form, didn't think that some kid would repurpose some old classical form in a new and compelling way, and did not in fact either speak or understand musical language itself. I will always be a harsh critic of music critics because they strike me as a bunch of uneducated fools attempting to report on some French political campaign without bothering to learn the French language. What could one write in such a situation? "The candidate started off softly, building to a climax, whipping the crowd into a frenzy by the end." That tells me nothing of the content of the speech. That is exactly how most music criticism sounds to me – illiterate fools talking about the style of a speech in a language they don't understand, incapable of grasping the slightest notion of the content because they don't speak the fucking language. 
- LYLE