John Cage got to the "top" like a lot of people like him did, by talking about themselves a lot. If you insist you are right no matter what, eventually people will start to assume it's true. The worst of his ideas to me is that music should have no emotion. WHAT?!? Music should be full of emotion! Music conveys emotion, and to try to take emotion out of the equation, in my opinion, is defeating the purpose of music all together.
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