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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
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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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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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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The world is teeming anything can happen.
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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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'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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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