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.

John Cage
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There are many sounds that are not musical, even many noises of nature. Some of these sounds are of great significance to the human species; they are the sounds of danger, the sounds of love, the sounds of joy. But most people refuse to listen to them or even to acknowledge them. To them they are unmusical, unimportant.

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