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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
Illustrator
Music Theorist
Musician
Musicologist
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
John Milton Cage
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John Milton
Jr. Cage
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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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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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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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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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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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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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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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All great art is a form of complaint
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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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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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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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We're breaking all of the rules, even our own rules, and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities.
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