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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
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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Jr. Cage
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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