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The world is teeming anything can happen.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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Musician
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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