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Old 11-08-2012, 10:49 AM   #30 (permalink)
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I personally don't consider 4'33 to be music, even if it is a written piece.
I view it more as a message than as music, but it inevitably devolves into the art semantics debate when the matter is pushed.

I think he wanted to say "There is sound all around us, all of the time. There is no such thing as silence. The sounds can be as beautiful as music." And that's exactly the point he made with 4"33. He has so many more wonderful pieces it's really a shame people latch onto this one and associate him exclusively with it.
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