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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.
John Milton Cage
Jr.
John Milton
Jr. Cage
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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