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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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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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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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