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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
John Cage
Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
John Cage
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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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 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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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