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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
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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As McLuhan says, everything happens at once.
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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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There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.
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Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
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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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My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
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It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.
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Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.
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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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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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In an utter emptiness anything can take place.
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It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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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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