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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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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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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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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 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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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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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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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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 that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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