modyfier

mine!

“i don’t believe in copyright. i think everything should be free. i don’t believe in someone owning a group of notes. if someone stole something that i said i’d written, well, i probably didn’t write it anyway. i probably subconsciously transferred it from another memory or another time. i would never sue someone over a sample or even an entire piece of music. it’s different when you consider yourself a composer and you think everything springs from your mind – you’re using a tired sort of system to do it, where the piano is your instrument, and your mind is the conductor. you’re creating composition. people who think that way would be very upset if someone stole an entire piece of music." – bill laswell (above)

there is a theory that cultural information hopscotches from one mind to another...allowing natural selection to infulence with its vice grips screwed tightly to the temples. it is called a meme. it applies to those expressions that make us human: theories, music, dance, practice, etc. bill laswell knuckle punches this concept straight in the face as it applies to the world of mp3's and file sharing. since when did sharing become a dirty word?