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Ok I'll accept him as a composer.

It's certainly not outside my scope of comprehension however, if it was I'd be a little bit worried.

It's just from some of the things he's done and said, I don't personally think he is capable of properly writing music. I know the piece you posted is a composition, I've heard it before, but I think there was very little 'ear' involved in the entire thing. For me personally, it isn't a very impressive piece of music, and indeed I'd argue that Britney Spears has figureheaded better music.

John Cage said he was more interested in the horn players emptying their spit buckets then he was in what they played. You could interpret that to mean he is a brilliant man, who see's things in a very clever way. However, I would argue that he simply could not appreciate what the horn players were actually playing, or had a very limited understanding of it. I personally enjoy watching a horn player emptying his spit bucket (or what ever its called) but it isn't the reason I pay to go and watch an orchestra play music. Personally, I think he was almost tone deaf based on that statement.

I could sit here and debate John Cage to the cows come home, but not because I just love annoying people. To be honest I just enjoy debating music, if of course anyone is seriously offended by any of the comments I made, then I'll gladly stop. If anybody however, starts to imply that John Cage is superior to Rimsky Korsakov for example, then they will have another thing coming!