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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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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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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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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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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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The purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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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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