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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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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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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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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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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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