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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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John Milton Cage Jr.
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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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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 purpose of music is to sober and quiet the mind, thus making it susceptible to divine influences.
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Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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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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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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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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