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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
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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All great art is a form of complaint
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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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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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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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?
John Cage
