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Old 11-21-2014, 10:11 PM   #161 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Ninetales View Post
Thank you, you rule. I need to write an essay on this next month and am still on the fence. I've always thought it was music, based on a pretty liberal view of "whatever you think is music is music". Don't know if it holds up tho. Could probably write a thousand words either way.

Tl; dr I don't have a god damn clue
What class? I could talk at length about 4'33. One time I had to do a 30 minute speech for a class and about 1/3 of it was about that piece. I'll post my thoughts on it soon. You can probably guess which way I lean.
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