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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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What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.
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To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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