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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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More quotes by John Cage
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.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
John Cage
Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
John Cage
In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
John Cage
We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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...we make our lives by what we love.
John Cage
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
We only hear what we listen for.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
John Cage
