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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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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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