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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
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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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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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