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Originally Posted by Frownland
Really? I just figured that they were the type of people who respect the artist's word on their own music. Seems like a no brainer for me. I would respect a carpenter's claim that the chair he made was made out of hardwood oak much in the same way. Sure, they could be full of ****, but given that it's an artist's livelihood or passion, it wouldn't get them anywhere lying about something like that.
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Unless of course they just accidentally used the wrong piece of wood and didn't notice.
This is beside the point however. I think I've shown that claiming that something is music just because the artist says it is music, is not a valid argument
by itself. There are other criteria to meet, or else music has no definition.
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The word of the artist trumps all.
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Yeah, that doesn't sound pretentious at all. I feel like that should be the plaque on a statue of some guy riding a horse, pointing toward the horizon.