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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

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.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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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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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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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