“But is it music?”
One question you hear people ask a lot when listening to some strains of avant-garde music is, “but is it music?”. You hear a lot of arguments about what exactly music is and isn’t (in the avant-garde world, anyway). And people waste a lot of time arguing about those definitions.
Well, I think the question shouldn’t be “is it music?”; it should be “does it bear repeated listening?”. Or, to get right to the point, “is it any good?†Because that’s really what matters, isn’t it?