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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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John Milton Cage Jr.
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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard
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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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