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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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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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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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