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Book cover for Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists by Kay Larson

CAGE SAID THAT he regarded 4′33″—his “silent piece”—with utmost seriousness. For him it was a statement of essence. Three years before he died, he told an interviewer: “No day goes by without my making use of that piece in my life and in my ...more

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