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Old 01-14-2013, 03:31 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by blastingas10 View Post
Haha wow. What a pretentious *******. This guy is criticizing Hendrix? By the sounds of it, he couldn't write a song as good as Hendrix in his wildest dreams.

This is a horrible argument and is one of my biggest pet peeves. Lacking talent in one art form has no bearing on a persons ability to asses another's work. If this argument had any validity the only people who could hold any views on music would be people who are good musicians. If someone was praising Hendrix would you say "what do you, know you can't write a good song"? Of course not, but somehow people seem to think this is a viable counter-argument to criticism of their favorite artist's.
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