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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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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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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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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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