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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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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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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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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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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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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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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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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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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