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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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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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 are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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