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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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