Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

Music History, Theory, & Composition. Piano. Education. Psychology. Investing. Selectively social. Earth Joined May 2011

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

5 hours ago

If we train our music composition students with copyrighted materials (textbooks and scores) and they learn to generate their own original artwork, we don't ban them unless they plagiarize. Apprenticing with masters is not stealing, even if AI is the apprentice.

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

19 hours ago

Did you know? You help put a stop to literacy by texting TL;DR to every post that requires followers to read and think critically. 📚

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a day ago

3/3 Anyone can learn to become a true creative artist—incompetence is a choice!—but they must really want to stop their life of literary crime.

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a day ago

2/3 Maybe all that is needed is a simple line naming the original author(s) of the article, melody, or lyric. Without this admission or permission, however, it is theft—a short-sighted habit they ought to change. Intellectual property is PROPERTY, so NAME the source.

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a day ago

1/3 An honest reason to opt out of the commercial entertainment and writers' scene is to avoid dealing with plagiarists who believe and act as if it's impossible to create anything original. They copy-paste the others' work and pretend it's their own.

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

3 days ago

@privatuso Parasites can not survive without the hosts

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

4 days ago

Someone with no internal life who is 'psychologically incapable of private reflection' DOES NOT FANTASIZE. Novels and scripts end up as history, biography 'based on true story', or documentary—external, concrete, NOT fiction. The abstract doesn't register.

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

4 days ago

There are people with no internal life, people who act without thinking, and are psychologically incapable of private reflection. #julianjaynes julianjaynes.org/2026/06/18/the…

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

4 days ago

Competence is non-fakeable

Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

5 days ago

Arts are a hands-on, practical activity, and really ought to be studied independently of universities—a "credential" is meaningless with no artistic competence. This includes the musical and dramatic arts. One does not learn to play piano from lectures. 🎹 #pianolessons

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

4 days ago

YOU MUST CHOOSE ONE 1) Credentials at the cost of education? or 2) education at the cost of credentials?

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

4 days ago

Ability to synthesize and apply those facts in life-relevant ways is missing.

Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a week ago

Someone who can memorize many facts is like a large storage drive (or chip) in a smartphone or laptop; though it's full of millions of copied files, images, and videos, it is not "smart."

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a week ago

We are seeing long-time supporters of a fake music industry now complaining about AI-generated fake music—it is ironic. 🤷 😂🤣😂 #pianolessons #musicfundamentals #ProfessionalGrowth

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a week ago

While commercial musicians are sidetracked wasting their creative energies in their war against AI Music (!), the rest of us will continue to learn new practical skills and tools, practice piano, sing, write, grin, and not worry. 🎹 #pianolessons

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

4 days ago

Many "educated" people are merely "credentialed" people; they mimic outward appearances of those whom they perceive to be "successful" but it's only a show—they look down their beaks on those who learn practical skills. 🎹 🎻 #pianolessons #ProfessionalGrowth

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

5 days ago

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

6 days ago

The recent wake of $ARRR on the high seas.

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Mark Priest @PriMarkMus

a week ago

Someone who can memorize many facts is like a large storage drive (or chip) in a smartphone or laptop; though it's full of millions of copied files, images, and videos, it is not "smart."