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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.
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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It is not futile to do what we do. We wake up with energy and we do something. And we make, of course, failures and we make mistakes, but we sometimes get glimpses of what we might do next.
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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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