Roger Kreuz

The envelope of pleasing sounds to Western ears is actually quite small.

Think about all the possible note combinations you could have.

Many of them are very dissonant.

There's only going to be a relatively small number of

of combinations that are going to be considered aesthetically pleasing in our culture at least.

And therefore really is a very limited vocabulary that these artists are working with.

And so you might have one song and have like four or five different people say, gee, that sounds like my song.

And in a way they're right.

But in a way they're wrong as well because it probably really is