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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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California
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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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We only hear what we listen for.
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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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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.
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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 edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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