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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
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
Jr.
John Milton
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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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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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