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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
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University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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Jr. Cage
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More quotes by John Cage
Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
John Cage
Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
John Cage
When we separate music from life we get is art.
John Cage
Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
John Cage
There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
John Cage
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
John Cage
Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
John Cage
The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.
John Cage
I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
John Cage
An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
John Cage
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
John Cage
If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
John Cage
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
John Cage
Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
John Cage
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.
John Cage
