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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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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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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
John Cage
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
John Cage
If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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