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John Cage Inspirational Quotes (88)

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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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All great art is a form of complaint
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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