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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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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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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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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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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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