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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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The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
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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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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.
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Music is a means of rapid transportation.
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There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
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Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
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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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The Indians long ago knew that music was going on permanently and that hearing it was like looking out a window at a landscape which didn't stop when one turned away.
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
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