Quote Originally Posted by Shockwave Pulsar
Are you really that qualified to determine that? i've studied music, guitar and bass, for about 4 years and all 4 teachers i've had agrees that not all music is art. It's not right trying to determine what's art or no, not having any bases to do so. Most of today music is not art, that a song "Sounds cool" doesn't make it art, that you like a song doesn't make it art, that you can pick up a guitar stroke a few chords and hypnotize youngster doesn't make you an artist. There's a lot of crap out there, but it in this matter i can most likely assure you that evanescence is not art. Most musicians will agree with me.

IMO
I still disagree.
If it is art or not could only possibly be determined by the author's intent of making the music in question.
When the music is made for the purpose of making music and nothing else, it might not be art.
But I think the composer always to a certain degree wants his/her/it's work to be good.

If I collect lots of horse <img src=http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif><img src=http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif><img src=http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif><img src=http://forums.eyesonff.com/images/smilies/rpg_009.gif>*, put it on a red vacuum cleaner and take pictures of it,
you will most likely think the pictures suck, but they are nevertheless art.

*The stuff that comes out of your ass. Damn censorship.