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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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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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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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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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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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