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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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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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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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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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 are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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