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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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Musician
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
Jr. Cage
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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.
John Cage
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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...we make our lives by what we love.
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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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Out of the work comes the work.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
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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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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 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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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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 my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
John Cage
There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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