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CLASSICAL > composer, poet, essayist, painter, pianist > John%20Cage
It is better...
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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisitiuon of culture.
Source: Forerunners of Modern Music; At Random, in Tiger's Eye (New York, March 1949; repr. in Silence, 1961).
-- John Cage, (Sep 5 1912-1992), US composer, poet, essayist, painter, pianist; His avante-garde, inventive compositions and unorthodox ideas, e.g. with 12-tone scales, profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.