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

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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.
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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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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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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.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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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's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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