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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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I want to change my way of seeing, NOT my way of feeling. I was perfectly happy about my feelings.
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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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Art is sort of an experimental station in which one tries out living.
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...we make our lives by what we love.
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No one can have an idea once he starts really listening.
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The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
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We need not destroy the past. It is gone.
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In the dark, all cats are black.
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Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
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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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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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The function of Art is to imitate Nature in her manner of operation. Our understanding of her manner of operation&Rdquo changes according to advances in the sciences.
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