John Cage quote: Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?Are the people ...

Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical?What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

~ John Cage ~

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