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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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Art is whatever you can get away with.
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The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
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Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
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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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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
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Music is edifying, for from time to time it sets the soul in operation.
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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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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 world, the real is not an object. It is a process.
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Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want
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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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