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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
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LA
California
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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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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.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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