Quote by: John Cage

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.


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Author Bio


  • NameJohn Cage
  • Descriptioninfluential American avant-garde composer
  • AliasesJohn Milton Cage Jr.
  • BornSeptember 5, 1912
  • DiedDecember 8, 1992
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionComposer; Writer; Musician; Music Theorist
  • WorksThe Perilous Night; Two²; In The Name Of The Holocaust; Bacchanale; 4?33?
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship