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Art is whatever you can get away with.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
Composer
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Music Theorist
Musician
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Painter
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
Jr. Cage
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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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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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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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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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Each moment presents what happens.
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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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Out of the work comes the work.
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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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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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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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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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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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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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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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