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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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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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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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