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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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