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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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Music Theorist
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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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 something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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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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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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