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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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Music Theorist
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Philosopher
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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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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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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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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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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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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