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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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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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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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