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When we separate music from life we get is art.
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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John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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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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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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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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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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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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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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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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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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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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