# Most delusional thing artists say about their work

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 15, 2008, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-delusional-thing-artists-say-about-their-work/477210 "2008-12-15T05:57:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-delusional-thing-artists-say-about-their-work/477210/61 "2008-12-17T18:54:58Z")

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> [@RealityChuck](#):
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> If vanity press is included, I’ll see your Nancy Stouffer and raise you Gene Steinberg, author of **[Attack of the Rockoids](http://www.rockoids.com/sample/1/)** (and some sequels, I see).

Oh, yes! I remember that one. It made the rounds on one of the email lists I was on back in the 90s. He wrote it with his son, as I recall (the son was a teenager). I tried to read it…but…yeah. Ugh. I think I made it through the first chapter before giving up in disgust.

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**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-delusional-thing-artists-say-about-their-work/477210/62 "2008-12-17T19:02:15Z")

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There are many good examples here, but I promise you, if you hang around mediocre musicians you will eventually hear somebody compare their work to Stravinski’s Rite of Spring. It’s the ultimate way to explain why everybody thinks your music sucks ass without admiting that your music actually sucks ass. It’s also a complete missunderstanding of what happened when The Rite of Spring debuted . Music critics almost universaly loved it.

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**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-delusional-thing-artists-say-about-their-work/477210/63 "2008-12-17T21:54:30Z")

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Every Saturday night on the XM Jazz channel they play “A Night at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola.” To introduce the show, they play a clip of Dizzy speaking. He says, quite earnestly:

> [@Dizzie Gillespie](#):
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> I believe Be-bop will help bring about world peace.

:eek:

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