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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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LA
California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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If this word music is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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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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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.
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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the environment. I listen to the sounds of 6th avenue.
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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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In the dark, all cats are black.
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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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