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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
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
Jr. Cage
J. C.
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Teeming
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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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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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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Out of the work comes the work.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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