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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
Musician
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Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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LA
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
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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.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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