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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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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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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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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