It's a good point. There's no need to know all this this music theory stuff in order to play well or to have fun playing. Just play the notes that sound good. Or, "you don't have to know English grammar, spelling, syntax, etc. to speak English."
In fact, it is easy to conceive of an individual who is totally illiterate and, simultaneously, a wonderful orator. Likewise, to conceive of an English professor who can properly parse and conjugate but stammers and turns beet red before a crowd - or has nary an original thought in his head to utter.
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