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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
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John Milton Cage Jr.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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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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Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing
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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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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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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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Some people take music too seriously, and some don't take it seriously enough, others take it just right.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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What right do I have to be in the woods, if the woods are not in me.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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