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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
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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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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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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