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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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When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
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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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Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.
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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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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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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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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One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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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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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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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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We only hear what we listen for.
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