Piero Scaruffi Quotes

I really think we should modify the law so that one can be sued for defaming not only living people but also the memory and reputation of people who died centuries ago.

Philosophy is the art of turning solutions into problems

Mass shooters and serial killers are white Christian men, with rare exceptions, and frequently with Anglosaxon last names.

If you tend to text and skim the surface of the Internet, you indirectly shape your mind to only deal with superficial matters.

Zappa was not a protester or an activist. He was merely a man who used his brain.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

The most difficult part of finding a solution is to accept that there is a problem

Michael Brown was a thug.

What we understand is not enough to understand why we understand it. (Signature line on his emails)

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success: the Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worth of being saved.

Question answers instead of answering questions.

If the cop honestly felt that this was a young black man (as politically incorrect as it sounds, this is the most violent category of people in the USA in 2014) aiming a gun at him, the cop can hardly be blamed for shooting first.

The ones who do not wander are the ones who are truly lost

Philosophy is the art of saying something incredibly stupid and making it sound incredibly intelligent.

...but defining their sound was Little Girls, an exuberant ska wrapped in an electronic patina, with modernist vocals à la XTC and a touch of dementia.