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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.
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.
Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
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- John Cage
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- Approximate author period: c. 1938 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for John Cage: documented activity in 1938. Wikidata Q180727, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180727 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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