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I remember very little about my first efforts
at composition, except that they had no sensuous appeal and no expressive
power. They were derived from calculations of a mathematical nature, and
these calculations were so difficult to make that the musical results were
extremely short. My next pieces used texts and no mathematics; my inspiration
was carried along on the wings of Aeschylus and Gertrude
Stein. . . .
John Cage
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