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In the nature of the use of chance operations is the belief that all answers answer all questions.
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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Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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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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Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.
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If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.
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There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure.
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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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In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall.
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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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The grand thing about the human mind is that it can turn its own tables and see meaninglessness as ultimate meaning.
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Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?
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So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
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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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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.
John Cage
One shouldn't go to the woods looking for something, but rather to see what is there.
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Beware of losing what isn't in your head.
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A meal without mushrooms is like a day without rain.
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When you make music you are acting as a philosopher. You can either do that consciously or you can do it unconsciously, but you're doing it.
John Cage
All great art is a form of complaint
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There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
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