Did You Know

I am a selfish person.

"These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy...in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal chord left. The vocal chord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape."

Do you know who said this?

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854(1854-11-06) – March 6, 1932).

This is first person who did not like copywrite shite in Music. Wicked. Respect to the man, though he was a FreeMason?

"Law professor Lawrence Lessig cited this passage to argue that in creating a system of copyrights in which control of music is in the hands of record labels, Sousa was essentially correct. Sousa also was credited with referring to records as "canned music.""



If you cannot find the links in this blog, I have majority of them filed, Email me!