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Which is more musical: a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
John Cage
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John Cage
Age: 79 †
Born: 1912
Born: September 5
Died: 1992
Died: August 2
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California
John Milton Cage Jr.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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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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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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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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Our business in living is to become fluent with the life we are living, and art can help this.
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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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I don't need sound to talk to me.
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Artists talk a lot about freedom. So, recalling the expression free as a bird, Morton Feldman went to a park one day and spent some time watching our feathered friends. When he came back, he said, You know? They're not free: they're fighting over bits of food.
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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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's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.
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