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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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