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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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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.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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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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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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The world is no longer a romantic place some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.
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The world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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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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We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
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The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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