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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.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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