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Originally Posted by Dean Roddey

No musical ideas *need* to be heard by anybody. But, lots of people are interested in hearing musical ideas. Pre-judging them is counter productive. Pre-judging them and providing some sort of minimal skill level that must be met for anyone to put their ideas out there is even more so.

It's not the responsibility of the artist to meet any aesthetic metric other than their own. It's the responsibility of the consumer to find those whose metric appeals to them. If people don't, and they just take whatever is handed to them, then that's not the fault of the artist.

very well said