{"id":1981,"date":"2009-08-28T02:58:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T23:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2009-08-28T02:58:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T23:58:23","slug":"quote-terry-riley-critics-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/?p=1981","title":{"rendered":"Quote. Terry Riley. Critics &#038; Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"paris1975\" rel=\"lightbox[pics1981]\" href=\"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/paris1975.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment wp-att-1982 centered\" src=\"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/paris1975.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"paris1975\" width=\"480\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, I do listen to critics. Of course, it\u2019s easier to criticize than to do it. And it depends on who the critic is; a lot of critics write without much awareness of the kind of work hat the person they\u2019re criticizing is doing. I\u2019ve had some things written that just astounded me, that they could make these statements about past works that were so false. I guess they get confused with other people. So it\u2019s as fallible as the person doing it. But I think a musician can listen to the critic. Critics can be teachers. You shouldn\u2019t feel that because you\u2019ve done this work you know everything about it. You are just one viewpoint on it. And it\u2019s just something that came through you, it\u2019s not something you own. The less ego you have towards that work, the better it is, from my view point. All you are responsible for is protecting it until you get it into a form where it\u2019s being performed. Then it\u2019s out there like everything else is. If you have ego towards it, that\u2019s only going to create pain for you. That doesn\u2019t mean that I\u2019m beyond that. But I do recognize that the less attached I am to it once it\u2019s out, the freer I\u2019ll be to do my next work.\u201d [<em>Talking Music, William Duckworth, 1999<\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYes, I do listen to critics. Of course, it\u2019s easier to criticize than to do it. And it depends on who the critic is; a lot of critics write without much awareness of the kind of work hat the person they\u2019re criticizing is doing. I\u2019ve had some things written that just astounded me, that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}