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Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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My work became an exploration of non-intention.
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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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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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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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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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