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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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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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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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Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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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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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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