An effect that Adams uses in some of his orchestrations is to run a violin bow against the ends of vibraphone keys causing a shimmery and haunting sound. Very nice effect.
@bencurry31114 жыл бұрын
Bruce Taylor It's used in a lot of wind symphony pieces and they use cello rather than violin bows. My favourite use is in Strange Humours by John Mackey.
@ironmaz14 жыл бұрын
ah so thats whats those strange harmonics in the closing section were!
@edwilliams99143 жыл бұрын
Steve Reich does this as well. Not to say one "copies" the other or anything, but if you like that sound you might enjoy his "Sextet" kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5i7aWiqj8tkqtU
@ondinehd6889 Жыл бұрын
Steve Reich uses it a lot in his Sextet. You can see it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5i7aWiqj8tkqtU
@Farflonger10 жыл бұрын
try opening this video up in 10 tabs at separate intervals! its crazy!!!
@rr7firefly10 жыл бұрын
I did what you suggested (opening video on separate tabs at intervals), but with Tibetan singing bowls instead I got so blissed out that I was glowing for hours afterward. Caution: could also produce a whopper headache in some people.
@cjazz1110 жыл бұрын
lovin it! Thanks
@chrism82310 жыл бұрын
Coolest idea I've seen in a long time.
@groovyjazzbeats617 жыл бұрын
WOW...I did open 10 tabs...AMAZING! Try it but open then at different times...Great idea...Thanks!
@MrJohndory1117 жыл бұрын
KAFUCA6174 what intervals you guys suggest for opening each new tab?
@eggsandwine8 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant. John Adams is my favourite contemporary composer.
@thomas.vanderzwan Жыл бұрын
It's good to be back here. It has been quite a while since I listened to this. The exact same emotions and impressions that overtook me when I first heard this piece return like clockwork as soon as I press play. Absolutely gorgeous.
@sebastienkochpiano35849 жыл бұрын
Fabulous composer, i had the great chance to premiere his piano concerto Century Rolls in France in 2014 with the National Orchestra de Lorraine, amazing pieces!
@pattomuso8 жыл бұрын
I think this is used in 'Civilisation IV' game? Certainly the chorus from "Nixon in China" and part of "Harmonielehre" is there.
@christianjaros25208 жыл бұрын
Oh, this is definitely in Civ IV.
@georgiana17548 жыл бұрын
This piece has such a mesmerizing symmetry...
@denistatanka Жыл бұрын
❤
@XaXzin0410 жыл бұрын
Brings back good memories of launching nuclear strikes on all the major world cites then flying away to alpha centauri. Good ol' Civ IV!
@copernicus642010 жыл бұрын
still playing it.
@patrik600ful9 жыл бұрын
+Copernicus me 2
@vincentdc2119 жыл бұрын
+XaXzin Huh? How does a nuclear strike have good memories?
@copernicus64209 жыл бұрын
Vincentthegamedude those beautifull graphics of nuclear blast and satisfying audio of the blast and knowing you are annihilating your enemy's army
@vincentdc2119 жыл бұрын
Enemy's army....hmm. And who else? Don't you know the impact of a nuclear bomb? The army's enemy would not be the only ones annihilated. People are scary!
@lubavi10 жыл бұрын
It sounds like wonder.
@joelleyendecker1536 Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else notice the influence this piece might have had on Ludwig Goransson’s score for Oppenheimer?
@grahamexeter33998 жыл бұрын
Am following Farflonger's suggestion of 2 years ago: "try opening this video up in 10 tabs at separate intervals! its crazy!!!" WOWWW!!! Magic! Thanks!!!
@cobrastriesand76933 жыл бұрын
After reading that someone else had done it, I realized I’d have to as well
@NonInflatable3 ай бұрын
Wow...it's been 8 years since I first heard this, and I still think it's an astonishing treat for us all. You never tire of John Adams
@astrotter Жыл бұрын
The transition at 13:40 has always gotten me. This piece, along with Reich's Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards, and Music for 18 Musicians, pretty much helped preserve my sanity for a couple of decades. Or maybe they're why my sanity needed preserving, I'm still figuring that out.
@avjake3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of walking into the Luxor in Las Vegas with the sound of slot machines bouncing off the ceilings and reverberating everywhere in that cavernous space. But much more elevating. The ending is just incredible.
@skatemetrix11 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest modern classical pieces I have ever heard!
@ProfessorPille2 жыл бұрын
Reich and Glass have written plenty of remarkable music, but John Adams does something uniquely magical.
@Ӝ̵̨̄-к6ж8 жыл бұрын
pink elephants PINK P I N K we are in a zoo we are standing on top of clouds, over the water the moon is right there dude! touch it! nope, now we're back down into the underground tar city i need to go buy some things from the store, i'll be right back wait, here's 7$, get me some cigarettes, the little yellow ones with ketamine in them i need to feel nothing so that i can feel EVERYTHING ok, but when he was gone, some sketchy shit was going down i started feel as if everyone would suddenly vanish and leave behind only their clothes, like how Obi Wan dies (we're back again in my virtual Sicilian home [overlooking mystical crystal ocean]) (and i'm painting this here reality / but you see, i don't need that old style of thinking anymore, i tell you i can grow buildings as bright as the rainbow and stretch my arms as wide as the branches of those brilliant trees i get inspired by them and their immensity and i want to be them, with every breath i become more like my environment and at the same time i, like an engineer in the control room of the universe, keep the miracle running my eyes give light a reason to exist, my ears give sound a reason to exist, my mouth gives plants a reason to exist, but i never forget to give back my love with song and dance, pure joy for the universe, here's my joy
@HomsianCam8 жыл бұрын
+VV What is this? an Owen Wilson meditation?
@tymbomb12618 жыл бұрын
the sound of pooh
@charleddani18698 жыл бұрын
+tymbomb 12 you're silly
@tymbomb12618 жыл бұрын
+Charled Dani sorry...been told that before. ..silly is as silly does...how Bout silly nice guy...mean no harm
@Druffmaul8 жыл бұрын
WOW. This piece demands a title. How about "Pretentious Twaddle"?
@Scriabin_fan2 жыл бұрын
This was Adams' first orchestral piece.
@jeshecdom11 жыл бұрын
Esta obra es capaz de provocar muchas imágenes en mi mente. Pero en especial, cada vez que cierro los ojos al escuchar esta maravilla, me transporta a un sitio lleno de reflejos de luz fragmentados, como los que se ven en la superficie del mar en un día sin nubes y muy cálido. En esos días la luz tiene una consistencia saturada, como si todo brillase, que hace sentirme eufórico. Al escuchar casi siento el viento del océano, el canto de las gaviotas, el ruido incesante de las olas y la inmensidad del océano me traspasa el alma: un misterio remoto en el tiempo, una sensación de pertenencia al drama de trillones de criaturas desaparecidas hace eones que susurran mantras entre la música, tristeza, alegría, muerte y vida, pero al mismo tiempo paz, un estado de gracia. Todo eso me hace sentir esta obra de John Adams, es prácticamente una experiencia espiritual, ¡pero lo que mas me impresiona es que esta obra tan sencilla pueda provocar en mi todo esto! Gracias por subirla.
@rr7firefly10 жыл бұрын
Estuve en Santa Bárbara un día al lado del Océano Pacífico, pero en un lugar muy alto. Vi el fenómeno que se escribe sobre. Fue tan hermoso. A veces me sentía que estaba recibiendo un mensaje secreto del Cosmos. Era un mensaje que no se tradujo en palabras sino que provocó una euforia definido.
@jeshecdom10 жыл бұрын
Noe Berengena Creo que todo el balbuceo que hice en palabras tu lo resumiste de manera perfecta: "Se siente como si estuvieras recibiendo un mensaje secreto del Cosmos". Suelo sentir eso cuando me encuentro en lugares altos, especialmente si hay montañas alrededor y la luz es como la mencioné (aunque he llegado a sentir lo mismo en otras situaciones que no tienen nada que ver con lo que describo). Y tienes razón, se siente como euforia mezclada con una sensación cálida de bienestar o paz... algo como una euforia contemplativa, por contradictorio que suene eso.
@rr7firefly10 жыл бұрын
Jesús Héctor Domínguez Sánchez Escribo ahora en Inglés porque es mi primera idioma. Soy incapaz de escribir en español como Usted lo hace con tanta facilidad. Espero que esto esté bien. I really liked what you wrote. It was poetic and spiritual. I've copied it into my notebook for future reference. For several years I lived in San Francisco and the most wonderful thing about those days was the quality of the light and the changing atmospherics. In one day it was possible to witness a wide range of fogs, mists, golden light, reflections, hard shadows, etc… And strangely, sometimes I could be happily fascinated just watching sunlight tracking on the ribbed flooring of a city bus. As prosaic as that sounds it was unlike being on a bus in any other city. I hold these memories in a shrine inside my heart. The last 5 minutes of this Adams piece give me a similar deep sense of belonging to something that is beyond the ordinary, a situation that involves me extensively and invites me to surrender my sense of separate identity. I do it willingly every time -- with pleasure.
@jeshecdom10 жыл бұрын
Noe Berengena I actually think your Spanish is really good, but I understand that it is easier to write in one's childhood language: this is the reason I wrote my post in Spanish due to my English vocabulary limitations. I live very close to Mazatlán in México's west coast, and I have experienced some of the events you describe, and they somehow pop into my mind every time I hear this Adams piece. What really amazes me is how music is capable of transcending concepts to actually make you feel those fleeting moments of life (even when the intention of the composer is another one or he is thinking in very abstract terms). Keep treasuring those moments, that is what gives life its magic, wonder and mystery; I surely do. Greetings.
@ClaudioLaureano9364 жыл бұрын
I can clearly see your vision too. Hard to describe the mixture of feelings
@CookieDee1110 жыл бұрын
This has been so good to listen to.
@NonInflatable8 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest modern composers. Nothing common or simple about this astonishing piece of music. Thanks for making it available.
@WilliamFord9728 жыл бұрын
+NonInflatable *contemporary
@Mawimbi8 жыл бұрын
8"50 has Ravel written all over it
@captainhaddock643511 ай бұрын
Well that's a misleading title
@ClassicalCDT9 жыл бұрын
Amazing piece! Wished we played it!
@annandmartintravers52812 жыл бұрын
Yes, this is quite remarkable. A subtlety of tone and texture that I have never heard before.
@ondinehd6889 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful! And the section at the end is amazing, wrapping up the piece unexpectedly, and yet, in its most minute components, in the vibrations of sound that remain, and slowly fade, so naturally, and organically. It's like listening to, and having to pay attention to, harmonics, which we don't generally listen to, or even hear, and which are so interesting as they almost have a life of their own! One can see how, for instance, Ravel's "Oiseaux Tristes," could be a precursor of Adams' piece (Menahem Presler: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKnFZmmiqKx4jrs). Btw: which orchestra is playing, and under whose direction? Edo de Waart? Wonderful performance, the best!
@WilliamSalazar9 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! sounds a lot like a Steve Reich piece to me .
@WilliamFord9728 жыл бұрын
+William Salazar I agree. Of all of Adams' pieces, this and Shaker Loops have a Reich-like sound.
@NonInflatable3 ай бұрын
Worries? Problems? Seek this out again. Settle down and allow this waterfall of musical magic to wash over you and and give you peace of mind.
@bertberenschot786 жыл бұрын
Adams called this piece a kind of "pastoral with pulse". Yes, for me it so full of far shimmering horizons.
@joseadolfo792810 жыл бұрын
me encanta el uso de la percusión la tension de las cuerdas este tipo es un fenomeno
@luizsouza1743 жыл бұрын
Tnks Civilization to show me that masterpiece
@Christian-tw7me2 ай бұрын
I make a Nightwalk in the Past and i hear this Beautiful Music with my Headphones and i iook up to the Nightsky with his Stars that flashed me so much..
@DMCSanchez1110 жыл бұрын
it sounds like civilization o.O
@CryonicCrusader10 жыл бұрын
It is used in Civilization IV. ;-) John Adams contributed a large portion of his work to Civ 4 - this, Grand Pianola, Harmonielehre (which is my favourite Adams work btw), Shaker Loops, one part of Nixon in China... probably missing something.
@copernicus642010 жыл бұрын
AgentDC76 this is one of the ingame sountracks of the game. you listen such songs when you nuke fucking montezuma
@CryonicCrusader10 жыл бұрын
Copernicus Heh, indeed. ;-)
@CryonicCrusader10 жыл бұрын
AgentDC76 I did actually forget a couple Adams contributions on the list - The Chairman Dances (which IMO is probably the most suitable of his tracks for the game, sounds almost like the frenetic nature of the "rat race" :-p), Christian Zeal and Activity, his Violin Concerto (at least, part of it), and Tromba Lontana are also in the game.
@patrik600ful9 жыл бұрын
AgentDC76 And "The people are the heroes now" from "Nixon in China".
@Belfreyite8 жыл бұрын
Yes! There is a nod in the direction of Steve Reich.We are gifted with the genius of both these men!
@LisaBellaDonnaMusic6 жыл бұрын
My personal favorite Adams masterwork ❤️
@TheTannerFour Жыл бұрын
when will these classical musicians learn to ask the rock musicians for help naming their songs
@albertomagagna34219 жыл бұрын
sembra pure fuori tempo!! Come fanno poi ad orchestrarla tutti assieme?! Sembra frutto di una sola mente e suonata da due sole mani! Aaaa…! Meraviglia
@yagiz8853 жыл бұрын
What a powerful piece of music!
@kalreece28115 ай бұрын
When I hear this, Henryk Górecki comes to mind.
@TravisGlover-TheArtfulDodger9 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. Funny thing is, that I was doing some homework about this guy who wrote this piece and I was listening to this while I was doing the homework. It's just beautiful.
@brunozauhar187910 жыл бұрын
It's sound, minimally evolving sound.
@60sStyling5 жыл бұрын
Hypnotic - seductive - transcendant genius.
@NickCarlozzi3 жыл бұрын
9:20 nintendo wii, is that you?
@JSaxofone11 жыл бұрын
You can rent it on Schirmer dot com :) I don't know if it's available to buy, Usually modern orchestral scores aren't (sometimes, you can buy the study score).
@Sparkles7132 жыл бұрын
Zoiks! No one so far has mentioned the obvious links to Robert Fripps `Frippertonics`- The minor 3rd trills, the booming fifths descending downwards,.Come on, People.
@Phlebas4 жыл бұрын
I'm currently on a nostalgic Civ 4 music binge.
@klangschatten56103 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful composition.
@chrism82310 жыл бұрын
Definitely tonal centers at work here. They come and go; are slowly replaced, but they function one after the other.
@copernicus642010 жыл бұрын
i have no idea about its technical details and all i can say is that definately a wonderful composer at work here
@chrism82310 жыл бұрын
Copernicus Thanks for the reply, Copernicus. Made me hear it again.
@freetofu9 жыл бұрын
Well I'm only 3 minutes in, but I'm hearing just one major scale, which is what I assume the title implies... oh, hold on, there's a flat 7th. Never mind...
@edbingey9 жыл бұрын
Chris Moos Pics or it didn't happen
@andreyserebryakov2231 Жыл бұрын
Was this kind of thing done before?
@blastromlifyedah Жыл бұрын
I stopped at two minutes and two seconds. I’m not ready for this yet. It’s that good.
@nigelmorgan74239 ай бұрын
Where and when has there been a live performance of this extraordinary composition?
@jhoan_roa5 жыл бұрын
Jhoan Roa brought me here!
@gapont23 жыл бұрын
it sounds like a soundtrack of today's films. Maybe his influence on young composers.
@6ollie666 жыл бұрын
Sweet. As an expression of anyone but your fine worldly self, I'm unsure? .... Have you heard parts?
@giuseppebrandonino77148 жыл бұрын
When I listen to this work of art, I picture the lifetime of a great person, like Abraham LincolnThe intro is his upbringing, during which he builds up character, at 1:50 he realizes his ambition and pursues itAround 6:00 he faces with many struggles and hurdles achieving those dreams, basking in his feats around 7:20At 9:30 he wields power and uses it to cement the fate of society around himAt 12:20, he retires, old and frail but accomplished before meeting his Creator13:33 is when his legacies on Earth are revered by the generations to come
@threethrushes Жыл бұрын
Civilisation 2.
@ironmaz12 жыл бұрын
this is one of my favorite things I have come across recently
@οδυσ.φωτ11 жыл бұрын
ένα ηχητικό σύμπαν που αναδημιουργείται συνεχώς με την παράθεση πληθώρας μουσικών μοτίβων ποικίλης χροιάς....δεν αναμένεται κάποιο μήνυμα...το ίδιο το σύμπαν είναι το γεγονός...
@deborahsoule96987 жыл бұрын
Oh dear, I'm just not getting it. Yes it is decorative, pensive, and mood-setting, but that's all I'm getting. I have tried and tried to love John Adams. I thought maybe I was just a stick-in- the-mud about modern music, but then I listened to Thomas Ades and got swept away. Who knows why? I always wish I could fly to the future and see which contemporary composers are still being listened to 100 years from now. That would be a test of sorts!
@ronaldo.araujo6 жыл бұрын
Uma aula de arranjo
@athanasiusjames19 жыл бұрын
Magnificent!
@sarahdubois238610 жыл бұрын
I wonder if he first composed this electronically then measure by measure found the traditional instruments to imitate the electronic sound?
@lrm929810 жыл бұрын
paul wright hey dude... violists need jobs. Show some respect.
@MichaelSeltenreich10 жыл бұрын
paul wright There is a lot of "serious" music which is written and performed solely on a computer. It is studied at the best schools and conservatories. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_music
@lrm929810 жыл бұрын
You didn't get my joke... Shows just how much you know about a orchestras...
@lrm929810 жыл бұрын
I'm checking out your links though cause I'm totally into electronic music.
@jorgepeterbarton7 жыл бұрын
he later used synthesisers, but seems to use the orchestra like a big additive synth...so i don't think that's necessarily the case, just the same methods based on overtones, finding new sounds that a synth tinkerer or builder would use based on theory of sound, drones etc..
@davealbrecht128 жыл бұрын
Fantastic textures!!! Great music for doing some creative non-fiction writing.
@tr793818 күн бұрын
Boring
@brainrussell68116 жыл бұрын
Revolutionist, beer maker, composer... and rumor has it that he can pat his head and rub his tummy at the same time. Quite the portfolio.
@WEFEARSANITY10 ай бұрын
2:12 🧶
@Belfreyite8 жыл бұрын
Could the piece have done with a little more strident base at 5.39?? (Takes cover)
@Steinwaytoday8 жыл бұрын
I don't think so lol It seemed very relaxed and chill at that point, why would you want something strident? It would disturb the dramatic line of the piece.
@TamarataRecord8 жыл бұрын
where disponible for buying cd have this song. I would buy it.
I love this music! It's simplistic yet elaborate, repetitive yet free-form. It seems to almost capture the spirit of nature world in it's slowly changing patterns and growing complexity.
@ondinehd6889 Жыл бұрын
I would not say "simplistic," as it has negative connotations, but "simple." It's not the same thing.
@aviatorjoe4153 Жыл бұрын
@@ondinehd6889 Sigh... context. And in this context, yes it does mean the same thing.
@dianas17010 жыл бұрын
beautiful, anyone know what instruments he is using?
@deearedub9 жыл бұрын
Some instruments that I hear are strings, xylophone, trumpet, maybe piano, high bells. Reminds me of the beginning of Ravel's Gaspard de la Nuit.
@moolieporchers76299 жыл бұрын
At the very end there is a sequence that has some wonderful fat bass tones that have to be generated by a synth , I think. I have adored this piece since I first heard it back in 1985 or 6. The Elektra/Nonesuch Adams compilation this is on is a fantastic comp... not a dull moment .... Christian Zeal & Activity is a stately piece , has grace and grandeur, like the instant piece here.
Actually it's 3 flutes all of which double on piccolo.
@gordonsheets98177 жыл бұрын
From rotifer to red giant stars....
@joseadolfo792810 жыл бұрын
I love the use of percussion string tension is such a phenomenon
@mmmmalibu8 жыл бұрын
@brentanthony603811 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing this. I love this piece.
@Archangina5 жыл бұрын
Galactic!
@vincentstuart314810 жыл бұрын
simple but it works!!!! makes serial composers sound all the same and souless
@wanderlngdays2 жыл бұрын
This is as silly as saying minimalist composers sound all the same
@luzdeamor029 жыл бұрын
i thought it was my photo
@copernicus642011 жыл бұрын
değil mi
@baruchmtz5 жыл бұрын
like postrock...
@MuseDuCafe11 жыл бұрын
YAY! Wonderful early Adams work. Thank you much for posting it!
@packatac104 жыл бұрын
Rock star!
@BLUEPLANETJAZZ7 жыл бұрын
13:39 bonecrush mode
@palecharm7 жыл бұрын
Fantastic opera :)
@nialas13 жыл бұрын
I could do it better........
@segmentsAndCurves3 жыл бұрын
Do it, for us to see :D
@jamesroach88419 жыл бұрын
Would someone please tell me what orchestra and conductor.
@tomtriffid9 жыл бұрын
+James Roach Not positive but I think this is from the album w/ Edo de Waart and the San Francisco Orchestra.
@rdjazzboy19448 жыл бұрын
+thomas thompson Edo de Waart recorded Shaker Loops, which is similar but different. I love that recording.
@tomtriffid8 жыл бұрын
It's one of the pieces included on the album, "The Chairman Dances," and I believe this is that recording.
@MCGomez10 жыл бұрын
Very beautiful. Who is playing, please?
@All2Meme4 жыл бұрын
San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart conducting.
@All2Meme4 жыл бұрын
@Vodoo Child I recognized the performance. It is from John Adams "The Chairman Dances" album recorded by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart.
@vincentabolivier46413 жыл бұрын
c'est comme ravel mais autre chose
@juandesalgado3 жыл бұрын
The "autre chose" is probably Steve Reich, kzbin.info/www/bejne/kImtiIJoe7ZkbMU
@Chuschannel9 жыл бұрын
This music makes me wanna go fart and poop. It is that good.
@ryanharrison31189 жыл бұрын
Like like like!
@paulybarr7 жыл бұрын
High praise indeed
@jeanjadin3 жыл бұрын
Y me tue ce compositeur
@ondinehd6889 Жыл бұрын
"Y," ????
@nnxiei5 жыл бұрын
@MegaCirse6 жыл бұрын
The twentieth century is over and the stifling attenuation, serialism and musical developments coming from the traditional folk music, sometimes abstruse that ensue, are in the process of reappearing! In the 21st century, it’s again acceptable for composers to write beautiful, spiritual, tonal or opposite music, which gives rise to absolute indifference or disgust !!
@kenhimurabr5 жыл бұрын
This music is tonal. Traditional tonality is long dead and won't reappear again. The most close sound of traditional tonality is among Philip Glass and American minimalists ouvre. The new tonalism is expanding, and is far from its climax.
@sErgEantaEgis1211 жыл бұрын
Simply beautiful.
@casbont11 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!
@tonopahfury7216 жыл бұрын
I feel like I have my water tap on all the time with that sound. despite the waste of resources, there is always a way to produce more intelligently a very positive sound, john adams got us used to very fascinating but also very scary sounds in allusion to global overproduction.
@IanTheCameraGuy10 жыл бұрын
John Adams definitely isn't my favorite composer but hey, at least he uses a key signature.
@IanTheCameraGuy10 жыл бұрын
Gustav Mahler is my favorite by far.
@MusicMajorMaestro10 жыл бұрын
Listen to Harmonielehre by Adams and then everything you know will be proven wrong
@williamscerbo45810 жыл бұрын
Why do you need a key signature?
@DHWOO10 жыл бұрын
This music is not in any key! Adams just prefers to use consonant harmonies that stem from triads. Certainly no functional harmony going on here! Beautiful piece though.
@herringfly10 жыл бұрын
Peter Smith duh.. everyone knows that.
@shnimmuc8 жыл бұрын
Nothing original here.
@Hajnikovmuz8 жыл бұрын
yes, and? what do you mean by that?
@shnimmuc8 жыл бұрын
Hajnikovmuz Exactly what I said.
@MartinRomberg8 жыл бұрын
So what?
@shnimmuc8 жыл бұрын
ClassicalFrenchOwl We agree than.
@user-np3mj3bf6f8 жыл бұрын
You could say that about any composer or any artist. Meaningless, worthless statement.