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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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