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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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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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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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