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1 Mar 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #492 – Rick Beato: Greatest Guitarists of All Time, History & Future of Music
“Beethoven, the late string quartets, the Ninth Symphony, things like that. So, they have a whole lifetime of experience that lead up to this, and there’s not… They’re not improvising, but things for improvising, writing pop songs, and that… I think when your mind is really most active and your brain processing speed is at its pinnacle, that… This is just my theory- … that people can come up with those kind of ideas.”
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- 1 Mar 2026
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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…Yeah … 30 years old, and then crystallized, so you’re using… The crystallized is you’re using your life experience to write things, so you’ll find that composers like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart wrote their most important works at the end of their lives. Beethoven, the late string quartets, the Ninth Symphony, things like that. So, they have a whole lifetime of experience that lead up to this, and there’s not… They’re not improvising, but things for improvising, writing pop songs, and that… I think when your mind is really most active and your brain processing speed is at its pinnacle, that… This is just my theory- … that people can come up with those kind of ideas. Same with improvising. I think that most jazz improvisers, not all, but most, do their best improvising before the age of 30. Creating something new.…
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