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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
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
University Teacher
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
Jr. Cage
J. C.
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Pleasing
Everyday
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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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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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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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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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.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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