Is it true that he doesn't know how to play any instruments?

probably

he plays the keyboard

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"Readers often ask me why I did not become a musician, since my essays, indirectly, tell a musician what music he should or should not be making. Other readers accuse critics of being merely frustrated people who would like to be the very musicians and stars they "criticize". Again, in my case it goes back to my passion for history and for knowledge. Pythagora, who had a mystic attitude towards things, thought that the audience was more important than the athletes: the athletes were entertaining the audience but the audience was "contemplating" the athletes, and to Pythagora that was more important. Understanding nature was more important than being a part of it. In a sense, when you "contemplate" nature you manage not to be part of it, to be something else, above and beyond it, almost divine. Pythagora thought that this "contemplation" of nature led to logic. To Pythagora religion and mathematics were the same: the pure mathematician was a religious prophet, and viceversa. Contemplation was the key to understanding the universe, and it led to logical explanation of what the universe is. Logic was so ubiquitous in the universe that Pythagora thought that numbers were the ultimate reality. In particular, he discovered the relationship between numbers and music. Music is logic. All of this was evident to him as the "listener", not as the "maker" of music."

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>>73873127
Typing isn't music you dingus

>>73873127
so thats a no then

>>73873194
Except Pythagoras contributed to maths and science, you useless autistic piece of shit.
He's so fucking delusional if he thinks that he's actually doing something fruitful to society, other than providing occasional lulz, that is.

>>73873275
>he thought scaruffi was comparing himself to Pythagoras
Try reading again

>>73873275
>scaruffi mentioned pythagoras so he must be projecting

you present a crafty strawman, but scaruffi isn't claiming to have contributed anything nearly as valuable to society as pythagoras. he's just highlighting the innate pleasures of contemplation.

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>been taking piano lessons for a month now
>don't feel like I understand music more at all
>still a huge fucking pleb with pleb tastes

>>73873397
>a month
you gotta be kidding me anon

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>>73873519

That's 4x20$=80$ spent already I should be a fucking patrician by now!!!!!!

Scaruffis review of that experimental beat album that sampled skrillex was pretty accurate and uplifting. Other than that I dont like the guy at all.

>>73873397
Get a DAW

>>73872622
He still knows more about music than anybody on /mu/ though

>>73873275
He wasn't saying he had or does. I am pretty sure that he will become recognized later on when the music he regards highly happens to withstand the test of time while most is forgotten.